"I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium."

-- Neil Armstrong

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“Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.”

Source : Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”
“We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.”
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.109, Princeton University Press
“What is man but his passion?”
“We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.”
“It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.”
“I guess maybe you donâ€™t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles”

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