"[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
“I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything”
“Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures...”
“I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.”
“I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.”
“The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.”
“All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.”
“I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards”

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