Edmund Hillary Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Being evil is easy.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I worked at a McDonald's inside a Walmart. It wasn't even a real McDonald's.
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It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.
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Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon.
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
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late news was suicide of w:Jan Masaryk - In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, [-] and saying in a loud voice -'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
