"We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again."

-- Alan Shepard

#Past Quotes #Agency Quotes #Rise Above Quotes

“I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You make your own choices, Kira, and you canâ€™t let anyone ever take that away from you.”
“I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.'”
“Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
“These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently, They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft. For should the voice directly strike the brain, It would astonish and confuse it much; Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain. That it the organ may more gently touch.”
“Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.”
“The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.”
“Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.”

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