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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and...
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Drowning does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing,...
– Mario Vittone
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It is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
– Moby Dick, chapter CXXXII -The Symphony
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1961: Surgeon and Antartic explorer Leonid Rogozov...
1. ”It seems that I have appendicitis. I am keeping quiet about it, even smiling. Why frighten my friends? Who could be of help? A polar explorer’s only encounter with medicine is likely to have been in a dentist’s chair.”
2. ”I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil! A snowstorm whipping through my soul, wailing like a hundred jackals. Still no obvious...
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