#ike

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive. ↗

— Thomas Shepard

#among #been #bees #care #down

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#invented #like #maze #obstacles #ones

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#chance #guy #him #himself #i

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#fluent #her #like #mother #only

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#always #anymore #career #doing #feel

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#certain things #examine #get #i #journal

To be honest, bread constipates me, and I like to have my daily bowel movement. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#daily #honest #i #like #me

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethical #ethics #explicitly #fact #given

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections