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Karl Wallenda Quotes


The founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
(1905 - 1978)


Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.