#chin

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#any #being #capability #down #flying

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. ↗

— James Chanos

#banks #because #china #instruments #loan

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#elementary #elementary school #i #missouri #school

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#launching #line #maternity #me #point

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#force #may #must #prevent #push

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer. ↗

— Molly Sims

#arnold palmer #grew #i #jack #jack nicklaus

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#appealed #draws #exciting #going #happen