"Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics."

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Source : "Future: A Recent History". Book by Lawrence R. Samuel, p. 92, June 2009.

John R. Platt

#Moon Quotes #Matter Quotes #Physics Quotes

“We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.”
“I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.”
“We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.”
“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.”
“Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.”
“I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.”

Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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