"It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not the entrenched cultural power and self-congratulatory moral rhetoric of some people in countries long accustomed to telling other societies what to do and how to behave."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Country Quotes #Self Quotes #Long Quotes

“I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.”
“The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.”
“Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
“Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.”
“I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.”
“NOT, Iâ€™ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistâ€”slack they may beâ€”these last strands of man In me Ã³r, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”
“Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front”

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