"Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together."

-- Pat Ament

#Climbing Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I just hugged the man that murdered my son.”

Source : "Forgiving Her Son's Killer: 'Not An Easy Thing'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 20, 2011.
“The only limits we have are the limits we give ourselves.”
“Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, p.150, Del Rey
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”
“Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.”
“A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.”
“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing wasÂ expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: â€œThe principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.â€”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc
“Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.”

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