"For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship."

-- Chris Hadfield

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“It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.”
“The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. Itâ€™s not just Jews against Arabs. Itâ€™s the Orthodox versus those who donâ€™t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. Itâ€™s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideasâ€”and everyone else is an enemy. Itâ€™s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.”

Source : "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.
“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?”
“It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.”
“To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.”

Source : Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2001). “The Qurʼan: Translation”, p.14, TTQ, INC.
“I didn't binge when I was pregnant.”
“William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of Indiaâ€¦ He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.”
“It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free, that sort of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.”

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