"I really believe that, in 500 years, we will still remember the International Space Station, because it will have been the first time, really and truly, that nations put a lot of money, brains, resources, and effort together to build something peacefully, and to work together for the sole and unique purpose of furthering our knowledge and bringing it back to Earth for our mutual good."

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Julie Payette

#Believe Quotes #Unique Quotes #Effort Quotes

“One thing I will never do as long as Iâ€™m at Georgia is lose to Florida.”
“The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values. Humor can sometimes be the only way out of this intolerable dilemma. And if that doesn't work, arson.”

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“The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.”
“our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.”

Source : Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books
“God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”
“Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.”
“When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.”
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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