"By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?"

-- Burt Rutan

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“Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.”
“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”
“The minute you're born, you're getting older.”
“I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”

Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.120, Vintage
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
“When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.”
“On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.”
“A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!”

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