Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Topic

Adversity

Author

Ernest Shackleton

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Explorer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Topic
Nature of progress

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason Man and Superman
Medium
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Genre
Drama (play)
Language
English
Time
1903 1900s 20th century
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Citation

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Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Topic
Achieving great things Adversity

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
The Antichrist
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1895 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 57.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 57.