I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men." - Meaning and context.">
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As quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008)
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

— Edmund Hillary

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men." in the context of "As quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Edmund Hillary

About Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.