"After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary."

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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

Gene Cernan

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“They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.”

Source : Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt, Georges Seurat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2009). “Georges Seurat: figure in space”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“We love because it's the only true adventure.”
“The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether they need to accept you really is directly relative to how you make them feel.”
“we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.”
“See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.”
“I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.”
“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”

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