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Ernest Shackleton Quotes

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'Difficulties are just things to overcome'

'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'

'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'

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Kilkea, Kildare
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shackleton_ernest. BBC Profile
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000097.htm South Pole Site

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. - E M Forster
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St Augustine Introduces Julian Calendar to England - 0597, William the Conqueror crowned - 1066, Domesday Book Commissioned - 1085, First Christmas Tree in Britain - 1800, Mrs Beeton Published - 1861, End of the Soviet Union - 1991
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