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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.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Forever, Soul, Mountain

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.300, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

  David Souter

  Country, Cost, World

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• I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Order, People, Groups

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• From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Moments, Holy, Mass

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• Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thinking, Climbing

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.155, Bantam

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ambition

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• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  Petrarch

  Climbing, Mountain, Earth

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• Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Credit

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• If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

  Confucius

  Life, Mountain, Earth

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• where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Ifs

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Climbing, Forever

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.106, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Math, Looks

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• To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

  Lucretius

  Power, Haste, Levels

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Taken, White

  "Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?" by Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. February 3, 2010.

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• Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, Tree, Shelter

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• We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.

  Oswald Spengler

  Lying, Heart, Winter

  Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”

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• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dark, Thinking, Kitchen

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• They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Achievement, Way, Difficulty

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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• Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

  James Salter

  Children, Believe, Successful

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.69, Vintage

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• I am as one
  Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height,
  And having gained what to the upcast eye
  The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees
  Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged,
  Towering aloft, as distant as before.

  Joanna Baillie

  Ambition, Eye, Mountain

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• Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Girl, Technology, Print Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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