"I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Natalie Merchant

#Despair Quotes #Want Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
“Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over Who could tell this from snow on the boughs.”
“You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itselfâ€¦so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.”
“Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.”
“The soul in man is greater than his fate...”
“... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?”
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

Source : James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin
“Poets tell many lies.”

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