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We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

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In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

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If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance.

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We had found an accursed country. On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home—we knew not where—we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas.

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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born: May 5, 1882
Died: October 14, 1958 (aged 76)
Bio: Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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