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“As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.”
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“And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.”
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“In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.”
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“Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”
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“Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.”
Source : Remarks during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.
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“Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.”
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“I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.”
Source : "Vince Flynn Talks 'The Last Man,' His Newest Mitch Rapp Best-Seller (Q&A)". Interview With Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.
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“Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese minority the Burakumin, which was pure Japanese in descent, but which was concerned with dirty work: leather work, cadavers, and some other things.There was a famous story of an old man who asked: 'Do you yourself believe you are the same as the Japanese?' And the outsider said: 'I do not know, we are dirty.' This kind of conscience was never there in the surroundings in which I lived. One always felt as someone whom could be proud of, being both German and Jewish.”
Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu