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“There will be times when you do not even feel like it, but with tenacity, your spirit will leap toward the peak. Climb those mountains, rise above any ordeal, and discover inspiration that transforms how you feel.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
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“It is only against the big waves that he is required to use all his skill, all his courage and concentration to overcome; only then can he realize the true limits of his capacities. At that point he often attains his peak. In other words, the more challenging the obstacle he faces, the greater the opportunity for the surfer to discover and extend his true potential. The potential may have always been within him, but until it is manifested in action, it remains a secret hidden from himself. The obstacles are a very necessary ingredient to this process of self-discovery. Note that the surfer in this example is not out to prove himself; he is not out to show himself or the world how great he is, but is simply involved in the exploration of his latent capacities. He directly and intimately experiences his own resources and thereby increases his self-knowledge.”

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Book:The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
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“it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.”

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Book:A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
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“If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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“Stille. Ikke et Menneske omkring, intet Lys, ingen Støj. Jeg er i det voldsommeste Sindsoprør, jeg puster tungt og højlydt og græder tænderskærende for hver Gang, jeg må levere disse Kødsmuler, som kanske kunde mætte mig lidt. Da det slet ikke hjælper noget, hvormeget jeg end forsøger, slynger jeg Benet mod Porten, fuld af det afmægtigste Had, henrykt af Raseri, råber og truer voldsomt op mod Himlen, skriger Guds Navn hæst og indædt og krummer mine Fingre som Klør . . . . Jeg siger dig, du Himlens hellige Ba’al, du er ikke til, men hvis du var til, så skulde jeg bande dig slig, at din Himmel skulde dirre af Helvedes Ild. Jeg siger dig, jeg har budt dig min Tjeneste, og du har afvist den, jeg siger dig, du har stødt mig bort, og jeg vender dig for evigt Ryggen, fordi du ikke kendte din Besøgelsestid. Jeg siger dig, jeg ved, at jeg skal dø, og jeg håner dig dog, du Himlens Gud og Apis, med Døden lige for Tænderne. Jeg siger dig, jeg vil heller være Lakej i Helvede end Fri i dine Boliger; jeg siger dig, jeg er fuld af livsalig Foragt for din himmelske Usselhed, og jeg vælger mig Afgrunden til evigt Tilhold, hvor Djævelen, Judas og Farao er stødt ned. Jeg siger dig, din Himmel er fuld af alle Jorderigets mest råhovedede Idioter og fattige i Ånden, jeg siger dig, du har fyldt din Himmel med de fede, salige Horer hernedefra, som ynkeligen har bøjet Knæ for dig i sin Dødsstund. Jeg siger dig, du har brugt Magt mod mig, og du ved ikke, du alvidende Nul, at jeg aldrig bøjer mig i Modgang. Jeg siger dig, hele mit Liv, hver Celle i min Krop, hver Evne i min Sjæl gisper efter at håne dig, du nådefulde Afskum i det høje. Jeg siger dig, jeg vilde, om jeg kunde, råbe dette højlydt ind i din Himmel og hen over den hele Jord, jeg vilde, om jeg kunde, ånde det ind i hver ufødt Menneskesjæl, som engang kommer på Jorden, hver Blomst, hvert Blad, hver Dråbe i Havet. Jeg siger dig, jeg vil spotte dig ud på Dommens Dag og bande dig Tændeme ud af min Mund for din Guddoms endeløse Ynkelighed. Jeg siger dig, jeg vil fra denne Stund forsage alle dine Gærninger og alt dit Væsen, jeg vil forbande min Tanke, om den tænker på dig igen, og rive mine Læber af, om de atter nævner dit Navn. Jeg siger dig, hvis du er til, det sidste Ord i Livet og i Døden, jeg siger dig Farvel for evigt og altid, jeg siger dig Farvel med Hjærte og Nyrer, jeg siger dig det sidste uigenkaldelige Farvel, og jeg tier og vender dig Ryggen og går min Vej . . . .”

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Book:Sult
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“At the highest peak of success, you will meet some of those who are filled with envy. They may try to pull you down, but you must choose to hang in there so they can never get to celebrate your downfall.”

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Book:The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
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“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.”

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Book:Dance Dance Dance
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“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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“I had a mysterious prolonged UTI of unknown cause in 2007 that all medical UTI testing proved negative. A year later in 2008 my doctor was stating ‘He has a plethora of multi-system complaints with no specificity.’ I had been working at an astronomical facility that used a large amount of mercury and had been handling rubber filled mercury systems with no personal protective equipment, such as gloves and respirators. The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) where I worked provided no industry recognized training in the safe handling of mercury.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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“The only workplace that prevented a health and safety visit from occurring during my career was professional astronomy. They were adamant that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were not going to be allowed to visit the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA. They were successful in canceling the scheduled OSHA visit and the result was I became much sicker as time progressed while working there. Part of that sickness was suspected mercury poisoning.”

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Book:Magee’s Disease
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“I made the mistake of taking a past girlfriend up to Kitt Peak National Observatory to fill the instrument cryostat with liquid nitrogen. It was one of the largest cryostats at the facility and took a long time to fill. The entire time there was a huge plume of cold nitrogen gas coming out of it, visible for several feet. After we were finished, she started complaining of feeling sick to the point that she thought she was going to vomit. It lasted for several hours. A few years later she started showing signs and symptoms of fatigue and depression and was being medically treated for it. I always felt guilty that I exposed her to the nitrogen gas, as I had no idea how toxic it was because I had never been sent on an OSHA approved cryogenic liquid training course.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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“I had taken an obsolete astronomical spectral gas tube home from the observatory for use as an ornament. Many years later I broke the specialized gas tube in the home. In the days afterwards I started experiencing sickness that I had been reporting to my doctor during working at the high altitude observatory. My notes state: During the last few days my bones are starting to ache again and nerves are twitching in my body and face like they were when I worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)...headaches...insomnia...zoning out...tired...forgetful...confusion. 5 days earlier I had been atop Kitt Peak mountain and 4 days later the sheriff disconnected my electricity.”

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“When I was hired to work at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), it was not disclosed to me that the site was being hit by powerful sonic booms from military supersonic aircraft that would shake the buildings. I had noticed that there seemed to be a significant number of staff that were having heart issues and some appeared to have had heart attacks and died prematurely. I later discovered during researching my own heart issues that it was a suspected effect of exposure to sonic booms. Regular exposure to sonic booms from military supersonic jet aircraft is suspected of increasing the incidence of vibroacoustic disease, a thickening of heart tissue which may lead to heart arrhythmia or premature death.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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