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I am hell-bent for the South Pole — God willing and crevasses permitting.

— Edmund Hillary

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On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened.

Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are."

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005)

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Having just paid our respects to the highest mountain in the world, I then had no choice but to urinate on it.

View from the Summit Simon and Schuster (2000)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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