"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."

-- Alan Shepard

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“For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.”
“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage
“And I think I have a distinct voice.”
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”
“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.”
“I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.”
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
“Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.”

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