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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

--Richard Bach, Illusions

The best things in a man's life are often his hobbies, and if he will not take his hobbies seriously life will lose half its charm. And mountaineering is something more than a hobby... And so I make no apology for this attempt to trace the history of our noble sport.

--Arnold Lunn, History of Skiing

It does not matter how long it takes to write a book. What matters is how good it is.

--Otto Lang, A Bird of Passage

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

--Rudyard Kipling

The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a queston; it's to post the wrong answer.

--Cunningham's Law

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

--Bishop W. C. Magee

You're starting none too soon to catch some of us while we're still around. We don't buy green bananas, you know!

--John B. Woodward Northwest ski pioneer

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