"The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken."

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Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.343, BoD – Books on Demand

Roald Amundsen

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“It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.”
“People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality. There are very few bona fide overnight success stories. It just doesn't work that way. Success appears to happen overnight because we all see stories in newspapers and on TV about previously unknown people who have suddenly become famous. But consider a sequoia tree that has been growing for several hundred years. Just because a television crew one day decides to do a story about that tree doesn't mean it didn't exist before.”
“Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.”
“The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
“Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.”
“What are the facts? Again and again and again â€“ what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what â€œthe stars foretell,â€ avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable â€œverdict of historyâ€ â€“ what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
“Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.”

Source : Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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