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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Comma
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ghost Adventures,' 'Mountain Monsters,' weird alien UFO shows like 'Ancient Aliens.' The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not typically a roller coaster person, but Space Mountain I really love out of all roller coasters. That and Splash Mountain.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bitter broccoli rabe tossed with Calabrian chiles and hidden under a mountain of snowy shaved Parmesan.
- Nov 07, 2020
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste... if we're ever to recoup that investment in the future... then we're going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.
- High-End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Gears
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hike up the Snake Path at Masada was mystical. The fog rolled in, enveloping the entire mountain.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a wrestler now for 12 years, and now I am reaching this peak at the top of the mountain - WrestleMania.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Bigg Boss 12' house one needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. It's an art and I don't specialise in it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when I surprise myself with the kind of patience I have shown and then there are times when I felt that I could have handled it easily but I made a mountain out of a mole.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first commercial ever was a Dr. Pepper commercial. And then I did a Mountain Dew commercial. A lot of soft drinks.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get to the top of one mountain and then you see another.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived out in the Koko Head area as a kid, when it was all farms. We would walk over that mountain into Hanauma Bay almost every day.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
One minute you're up a mountain, the next you're down a well. One minute you're with Tony Blair, the next you're with McFly. Ten years feels like two years when you're in the 'Blue Peter' bubble.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995), a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
- Shot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level. It's all athletes! In the mountain village, it's all athletes. It's hilarious.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all music, but when I am on the mountain, I listen to a lot of Nas, Drake, 2 Pac, etc.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
During his campaign, Donald J. Trump embraced the cause of fiscal responsibility and accused President Barack Obama of shackling the country with a 'mountain of debt.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
- Heavier
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020