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Stepford Station: Interview with a Palmer Station Contractor
“It was January, I was walking around in a t-shirt, I had a suntan, nothing else on but a t-shirt and jeans, I wore little booty socks running around working. Whales, seals, baby penguins, great food, but I couldn’t stand it. I hated Palmer.”
The luxuries of civilization only fulfill the wants they create.Raymond Priestley
A contented state of mind is the best guard against scurvy.Sir Clements Markham
I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.Richard Feynman
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.Robert Falcon Scott
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity can be made tolerable when the boundaries of oppression are identified.A.J.W. Taylor, Polar Psychologist
Shackleton resonates with executives in today’s business world.Morrell and Capparell
Adventure is just bad planning.Roald Amundsen
Picture all experts as if they were mammals.Christopher Hitchins
A review of “Encounters at the End of the World”
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