"There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest."

-- Conrad Anker

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“Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.”
“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Source : Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky
“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust.Â We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

Source : "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013.
“There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.”

Source : "A Flawed System," Harvard Magazine, May-June 1983
“I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.”
“This is a good day to die. Follow me!”
“I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.”
“We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.”

Source : "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

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