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“Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”
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“I always made an awkward bow.”
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“Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.”
Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.300, St. Martin's Griffin
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“The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.”
Source : "Productive thinking". Book by Max Wertheimer, p. 84, 1959.
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“How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.”
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“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
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“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
Source : " A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources" by H. L. Mencken, 1942.
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“U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
