"I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident"

-- Eileen Collins

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“Genius is the error in the system.”
“Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.”
“My friends joke that I love planning things - which I do - and the reason is because there's so much I want to do, so many things I want to see and experience. If I don't actively pursue these things, I will never do everything I want to do, in life and in my career. That's what gets me up in the morning.”

Source : "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”
“Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.”
“I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.”
“I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.”

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“He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.”

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