"Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating."

-- Felix Baumgartner

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“In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.”
“Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually.”
“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.132, Spiegel & Grau
“In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.”
“The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.”
“Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.”

Source : Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co
“I don't really use YouTube that much. I am a very Internet-oriented person, but I'm more of a Twitter freak - I'm always on Twitter. Or chatting with friends.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.”

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