Top 17 Richard E. Byrd Quotes
#1. Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
Richard E. Byrd
#2. I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.
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#3. No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
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#4. Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
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#5. A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
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#6. If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.
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#7. The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.
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#9. A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
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#10. A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
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#12. In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.
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#13. Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.
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#14. We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.
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#15. The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.
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#16. Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
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#17. I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
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