"I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty."

-- Walter Bonatti

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“When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!”
“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.”

Source : Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”
“We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.”
“I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.”
“I donâ€™t know how youâ€™ve managed a tan,â€ Daydra said, â€œbut youâ€™ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, youâ€™re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?â€ Kaldrosa hesitated. â€œHusband,â€ she admitted. â€œThe last beating nearly killed him.â€ â€œIf you do this, youâ€™ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but heâ€™ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.â€ â€œItâ€™s worth it,â€ Kaldrosa said. â€œTo save his life, itâ€™s worth it.”
“I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.”
“Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.”
“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

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