"Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come."

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Source : "Star Trek legend who became NASA's 'secret weapon'". Interview with Sheena McKenzie, www.sgutranscripts.org. August 25, 2014.

Nichelle Nichols

#Space Quotes #Earth Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they ask you for 10 different grunting sounds and you just feel like such a schmuck. It's crazy! When there's other people there, it tethers you to something, in a nice way.”
“If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.”
“Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing
“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”

Source : George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History‎" (p. 47), 1981.
“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press
“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”

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