"A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song"

-- Royal Robbins

#Song Quotes #Ascent Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.”
“Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”

Source : Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.”
“I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.”

Source : John Galt (1842). “The Provost: And Other Tales”, p.8, Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
“A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.”

Source : "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.
“It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.”

Source : New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993.

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