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Rusty Schweickart

"From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you â€” all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that youâ€™ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was."

Source : "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

Rusty Schweickart

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“I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.
“You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.”
“I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.”
“Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.”
“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.”

Source : Senate Confirmation Hearing: Hillary Clinton, www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2009.

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