"If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon."

-- Wernher von Braun

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“If You want a man to notice you, just wear red lipstick”
“I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”
“The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.”
“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.”
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.
“Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.”
“I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.”

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