Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to … - Edmund Hillary

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Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Edmund Hillary

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

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I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

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Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow. . . but I'm still growing!

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Charlie Flynn

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

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