“ Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
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“ Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped — to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie In veneration and the people's love. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns — you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold! ”
- William Jennings Bryan- Copy
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“ The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ”
- Nancy Barcus- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire. Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
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“ At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire,... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
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“ I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ”
- Michael Palin- Copy
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“ I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is room for the unexpected. ”
- Billy Zane- Copy
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“ Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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