Edgar Mitchell Quotes
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
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I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
