"Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?"

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Don Whillans

#Climbing Quotes #Males Quotes #Female Quotes

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

Source : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice
“I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.”
“As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.”
“I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.”
“No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.”
“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
“A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.”

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