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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#convinced #engineer #had #having #me

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#calculus #came #degree #first #flunked

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#contemporaries #dramatic #every #his #including

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#cosmic #encompasses #future #hereafter #humanity

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #christianity #come #concerned #follow

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#hand #i #subjugate #whole #will

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anything #contend #i #i write #kind

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#continual #continually #daily #disease #elements

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#american #american idol #bowl #dollars #either