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“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Samuel Goldwyn, motion-picture mogul

Lewis Pugh\’s mind shifting Mt. Everest Swim

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie

Portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934), sometime prior to 1907. Curie and her husband Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Working together, she and her husband isolatedPolonium. Pierre died in 1907, but Marie continued her work, namely with Radium, and received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Her death is mainly attributed to excess exposure to radiation.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. —Walter Bagehot

Mark Twain. Photo taken by Abdullah Frères in 1867, the year Twain traveled to Europe and the Middle East.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

David Agran @ Tupper Lake

Many thanks to David Agran for today’s quote.

Jeff Bezos What matters more than your talents

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. —Woody Allen

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.  —Eric Hoffer

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.

—Maya Angelou

There is no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head. –Robert McNamara