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• Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Self, Clothes

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Mean, Men

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

  John Green

  Foxes, Hills, Strawberries

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• As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

  Reza Aslan

  Journey, Mountain, Way

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• At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sibling, Creativity, Towers

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Retirement, Business

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• Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.
  Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

  Dante Alighieri

  Courage, Towers, Tempest

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• Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

  Patience, Eden, Lap

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• Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Kind, Fantastic

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• It's no use crying over spilt summits.

  Harold MacMillan

  Use, Cry

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• The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.

  Dwyane Wade

  Couple, Years, Support

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• What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  "How We Can Bring About Change" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great rip they formed the shore Where heavy boots left prints so deep Blue lakes remain 'tween summits steep The giants fought beneath our skies And from their bones our mountains rise

  Shannon Hale

  Rip, Lakes, Blue

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• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  Edmund Hillary

  Feelings, Satisfaction, Firsts

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• I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

  Hermann Maier

  Strong, Winning, Would Be

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• With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit.

  J.R. Miller

  Spiritual, Determination, Feet

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• The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Girl, Women

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

  B. C. Forbes

  Retirement, Business, Order

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Blow

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Glasses, Wind, Cities

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.

  Stanislaw Lem

  War, Understanding, Enemy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.59, HMH

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• Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

  Stacy Allison

  Believe, Trying, Mountain

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• Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Sadness, Mountain

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