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• Men stumble on stones, not mountains.
• There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
  -- Admiral William Halsey...
• Men are better when they are old; things when they are new.
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....
• The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions.
  In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. -- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboro...
• Preponderance of the Small. Success. Perseverance furthers.
  Small things may be done; great things should not be done....
• Great minds always meet at infinity.
• I once went for a job at one of the airlines. The interviewer asked me why I wanted to be a stewardess, and I told her--it would be a great chance to meet men.
  I was honest about it! She looked at me and said, "But you can meet men anywhere....