John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I do not like violence.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
