"For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft"

-- Jim Lovell

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“Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin
“I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”
“Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many well-said things. Pierce them together. Assimilate them. Make the process of reading them a way to form the mind and shape the soul. As anthologies can never be complete, we will never exhaust the ways quotations can enrich our lives.”
“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.”
“There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.”
“Look after your people.”

Source : "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”
“But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!”

Source : Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers

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