"When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!"

-- Yuri Gagarin

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“A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.”
“Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.”
“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)”
“At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.”
“First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me.”
“Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.”
“With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”

Source : Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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