"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

-- James Lovelock

#War Quotes #Space Quotes #Russia Quotes

“Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.”
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
“You want the audience to be uncomfortable.”
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
“President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.”
“Success for most people requires unlearning as much as learning.”
“What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.”
“God gets the easiest performance reviews.”

Source : Daryl Gregory (2014). “Afterparty”, p.17, Macmillan

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