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Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean.

Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Naval Observatory (1858). “Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy”, p.167

The very important thing you should have is patience.

"Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo". Interview with Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

I should stop expecting so much.

"Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

"Exit Music". Book by Ian Rankin, 2007.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books