"If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone"

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Jim Whittaker

#Climbing Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”
“No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”
“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”
“All genuine learning is active, not passive.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.”
“I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way”
“Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in ***** is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichÃ©s of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.”
“Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.”

Source : 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

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