"We have to earn our Wings every day."

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Source : Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow

Frank Borman

“Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.”
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
“We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.”
“I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.”
“I do like to dress up. I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.”
“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

Source : "Marc Quinn interview: Just a load of shock? (2000)". Interview with R.J. Preece, www.artdesigncafe.com. September 15, 2009.
“It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]”
“Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet â€“ you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.”

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