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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Two, World, Centre

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Climbing

  "Keys to Success".

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• He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Children, Animal, Climbing

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• After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

  Rafael Correa

  Reflection, Decision, President

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• Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Responsibility, Cold

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1993). “A Woman of Substance: Act of Will”

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• There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

  Karl Marx

  Path, Royal, Chance

  David Harvey, Karl Marx (2010). “A companion to Marx's Capital”, Verso Books

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• Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

  John Muir

  Lying, Light, Ice

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

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• The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

  Thomas Friedman

  Together, Needs, Safari

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.

  Ueli Steck

  Oxygen, Trying, Watches

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