"We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks beautiful but hostile. As you sit here you realize that Man will never conquer space. He will learn to live with it, but he will never conquer it. Can see for over 400 miles. Beneath me I can see the clouds. . . . They are beautiful . . . looking through my mirror the sky is absolutely black. Void of anything. . . . I can see the beautiful blue of the sky and above that it goes into a deep, deep, dark, indescribable blue which no artist can ever duplicate. It's fantastic."

-- Joseph Kittinger

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“Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage
“Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.”
“The only way to describe my involvement in Planes is that its an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I cant imagine anything getting better than that!”
“Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1972). “Problems and projects”
“Racism is kinda old. For real.”
“Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.”
“Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.”

Source : "The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. April 15, 2006.
“The traditional selling models, methods, and techniques that most of us have been trained to use work best in small sales. For now, let me define small as a sale which can normally be completed in a single call and which involves a low dollar value. Unfortunately, these tried-and-true low-value sales techniques, most of them dating from the 1920s, don't work today.”

Source : Neil Rackham (1988). “SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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