"I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe."

-- Gordon Cooper

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“My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.”
“Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.39, Macmillan
“Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'" by Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventually the navy, the Democratic Party and certain ideals of our country. Those are the things that became broken with my generation.”
“Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.”
“Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.”
“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. Itâ€™s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.”

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