"Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

-- Jon Meacham

#Ideas Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Cards Quotes

“The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.”

Source : "On the Art of the Cinema". Book by Kim Jong Il, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 1973.
“It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.”
“The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.”
“Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.”
“We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.”
“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”
“I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.”
“The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.”

Source : "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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