"Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

David Saint-Jacques

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Modern Quotes

“How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.”
“Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.”

Source : Stephen Goldin (2010). “Polly!: A comic novel of hope and blasphemy”, p.445, Parsina Press
“If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.”
“It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.”
“There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.”
“I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.”
“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”
“I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.”

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