#pac

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can. ↗

— Diana Nyad

#back #been #capacity #ever #far

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration. ↗

— Bill Nye

#everyone #exploration #red #space #space exploration

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. ↗

— Bill Nye

#armstrong #flight #i #important #kid

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking. ↗

— Bill Nye

#another #difficult #going #heartbreaking #land

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#enables #endears #fail #governments #main

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? ↗

— Soledad O'Brien

#cruelty #inherent #us

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#every #gay #gloomy #hallway #learn

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cherish #comprehensive #creation #dared #education