"The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die."

-- Lewis Gordon

#Islands Quotes #Swim Quotes #Deception Quotes

“American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.”
“On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.”
“I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.”
“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
“I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.”

Source : Democratic response to the State of the Union address, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.
“The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7
“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.”

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