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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 331
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