"Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle."

-- Igor Sikorsky

#Airplane Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.”

Source : "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.
“Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.â€ â€œNo, I donâ€™t,â€ Thibault began. â€œThen why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?”
“The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.”
“How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.”
“Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.”
“Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?”

Source : Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”
“I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.”
“Sometimes you only get to win one championship.”

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