Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.
Erik Weihenmayer
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There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.
Virginia Gildersleeve
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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
Virginia Woolf
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Socrates
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown.
Paul Craig Roberts
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The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.
Alan Brien
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Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.
Alice Borchardt
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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
Victor Hugo
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Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
William Kurelek
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I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.
Erik Weihenmayer
