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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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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious - Oscar Wilde
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Charles I beheaded - 1649, Cromwell’s Corpse Executed - 1661, First Lifeboat launched - 1790, Winston Churchill's Funeral - 1965, Beatles Rooftop Finale - 1969, Bloody Sunday - 1972, First Newsnight - 1980
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