"I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom."

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Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Source : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
“The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.”

Source : Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company
“So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.”
“[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.”

Source : "Newsweek Catches On to PS2". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 28, 2000.
“If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.”
“At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.”
“Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.”

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