"It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order."

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Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

Story Musgrave

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Years Quotes

“The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.”
“I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.”

Source : Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition
“Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.”

Source : "Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America".
“We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.”
“Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?”
“There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.”
“I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.”
“The United Nations has no business in our elections.”

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