"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Nature Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
“Taken out of context I must seem so strange.”
“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.”
“Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.”
“Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.”
“It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.”
“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

Source : "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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