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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.



When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.



Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.



Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.



Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.



The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.



The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.



When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock



When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.



Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?



Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.



You can stroke people with words.



Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.



If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?



Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.