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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.

Bear Grylls

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Couple Running Swimming
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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Death Intimate Life Moments
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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Boys Gay Thinking
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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Clever Hard Strong Work
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Games Little People
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Ends Feelings Planet
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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Dream Fire Light
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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Decision Fearless Kids
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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Dawn Giving Lines Up
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Baptist Growing Robins Up
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Ego Enough Strong
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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Gay Progressive Should

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