"The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ***** kicked."

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Source : Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”

Mark Twight

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“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

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“Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.”
“I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write poems. I believe this because I am quite sure poetry can do something no other form or writing, or human activity, can, at least not in such a powerful and distilled and undeniable way. And that we need this type of thinking for our survival as individuals and as a species.”

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“But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.”
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”
“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.”
“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know”
“We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints are passed, the hellishness of war drives us to break with every remaining restraint in order to win. Here is the ultimate tyranny: those who resist aggression are forced to imitate, and perhaps even to exceed, the brutality of the aggressor.”

Source : Michael Walzer (2015). “Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations”, p.50, Basic Books

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