This late mountaineer's most famous quote is "Because it is there"
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George Mallory - Wikipedia  George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886  8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer .... with the retort "Because it's there", which has been called "the most famous three words ... Presumably Mallory and Irvine died either late the same evening or on 9 June. ...... Wikiquote has quotations related to: George Mallory...
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Climbing Quotes  Misc funny and serious quotes about climbing, like: 'I don't have any friends, and my nuts are too small (climber on ... "I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. ..... trumpetlike musical instrument favored by swiss mountaineers. ..... "Because it is there. .... It's like that famous Munch painting.
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This Day in Quotes: The origin of George Mallory's famous mountain ...  Mar 18, 2015 ... The origin of George Mallory's famous mountain climbing quote: Because it's there. ... finally achieved by New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and his ... For more details, read this blog's full Privacy Policy. ... If you're old enough to have been watching Saturday Night Live in the late Seventies you...
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Edmund Hillary Quotes - BrainyQuote  Quotations by Edmund Hillary, New Zealander Explorer, Born July 20, 1919. ... I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. ... I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and ... I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late.
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS QUOTES - StudyStack  THIS LATE MOUNTAINEER'S MOST FAMOUS QUOTE IS "BECAUSE IT IS THERE", GEORGE MALLORY. WHEN THIS FAMOUS OFT-QUOTED NY YANKEE...
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Robert Frost - Wikiquote  Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. ... Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ..... Letter to Sydney Cox (3 January 1937), quoted in Robert Frost : The Trial By Existence (1960) by Elizabeth...
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A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground | Outside Online  Feb 18, 2015 ... A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground ... That's how Mark Twain defined a gold miner. ... Cheeseburger for a ride to the truck, parked at the top of Tucson's Mount Lemmon, some four miles up a skeleton trail more suited...
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Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech : NPR  Apr 3, 2008 ... On April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. In a crowded church in Memphis, Tenn., King spoke of the...
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Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presedential ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Like a piece of granite chipped off a Presidential peak, ... The Presidential Range of New Hampshire is like few places in the world. ... the highest peak in New England), the mountains had claimed 115 lives. ... The story of MacDonald Barr's death on Mt. Madison, 24 August 1986,...
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'Chapel Talks' PDF - The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod  Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. 201617 Chapel ..... Pictures of famous mountains: Mount Everest, Pikes Peak, Mount Hood, ... News that Jesus has sacrificed Himself as payment for our sins, and we are .... attached to You, our Rock, so that we will never wander away. Amen. ..... Where does God want us to plant His Word?
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Mountain Interval | poetry by Frost | Britannica.com  in The Road Not Taken. poem by Robert Frost, published in The Atlantic Monthly in August 1915 and used as the opening poem of his collection Mountain...
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Physics Quotes - Refspace  Newton is reported to have said 'If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.' This remark is even more true of Einstein...
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Opinion | Littleton Colorado | Littletonindependent.net  May 1, 2014 ... "When this old world starts getting me down, and people are just too much for me to face." That's the way "Up On the Roof" begins. It was written...
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jeopardy/1111_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IT'S ALL A LEGEND | One legend says the snows of Kilimanjaro are the final resting place of .... THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME | Read all about it! The Nome Nugget, founded in 1900, is Nome's & Alaska's oldest one of these | a newspaper.
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American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I've Been to the ...  Full text and of Martin Luther King's I've Been to the Mountaintop. ... of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, ... I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his ... But that day is all over. ... And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go...
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George Mallory - Wikiquote  From an interview, "Climbing Mount Everest is work for Supermen", The New York Times (18 March 1923); on being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest: "Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?" This question was asked of George Leigh Mallory, who was with both expeditions toward the summit of the world's...
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James M. Barrie Quote Life is a long lesson in humility. #quote #life ...  Read this slowly: "LIFEISNOWHERE" What did you read? "Life is no Where" Or "Life is now here" My Dear friends,Life is all about how we look at it... #quote #life...
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I. Fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1904. The Complete Works  If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of ... The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its majesty without ... Aye, but what happens once may happen again, and so long as these ... It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate, to reconcile this despotism of...