"Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business."

-- Alan Shepard

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“The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.”
“Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.”
“My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.”
“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.”
“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
“A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.”
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

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