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.'
Born in
Kilkea, Kildare
More about Ernest Shackleton
Links:
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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I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched - Julian Barnes
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