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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Past tense means you used to be nervous.



For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.



Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?



Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.



If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.



When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.



The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.



The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.



Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.



If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.



People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.



There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.



Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.



Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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