"I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful..."

-- Tom Hornbein

#Climbing Quotes #Views Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Having money is a way of being free of money.”
“People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.69, Nellie Bly
“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.”
“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.”
“Anti-Semitism is extremely common.”
“That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.”

Source : Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.22, Harper Collins
“I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.”

Source : Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.
“I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.121, Petrarca Press

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