"If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon."

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Source : "Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century". Book by Krafft Arnold Ehricke, 1985.

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

#Moon Quotes #Men Quotes #Given Quotes

“I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.”
“The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.”
“Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.”
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.”
“An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.”
“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.”
“I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2008). “City of Flowers”, p.204, A&C Black

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