Back then, the locals could not begin to understand why would ever scale a mountain unless you had lost a goat up one.

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Taking an organization to scale is like climbing a mountain.

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If you are close enough to see finer-scale features on the side of a mountain, he says, it is too late.

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It is as if Pushkin is too great a mountain for any one writer to scale.

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Once holed up in their mountain fastnesses, they can be dislodged only by a full-scale military assault and aerial bombardment.

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