"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further."

-- Wernher von Braun

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“I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.”
“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

Source : Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam
“But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.”
“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan
“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”
“The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred”
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
“When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.”

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