"An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction."

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Source : "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

Rusty Schweickart

#Mean Quotes #Alive Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.”
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.”
“Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,”

Source : "A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip". www.nytimes.com. April 18, 2013.
“What better way to expand your imagination than to read!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.”
“I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.”
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
“Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.”

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