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“Fortitudine vincimus—“By endurance we conquer.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“To panic, said T.J., was to make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“He smiled and stood up. “Because that’s what life is. A constant climb. Eternal growth. The continual battle against entropy. It doesn’t matter what the destination is, or what’s at the top; all that matters is that you keep climbing. That’s what it means to be alive, Harold. That’s what it means to be human.”
― Nicholas Binge, Ascension