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On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. “Why?” he asked. “Because,” I said, “this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men. ↗

— Newton N. Minnow

#newton-minow #newton-n-minow #president-kennedy #satellite #space

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. ↗

— Red Barber

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I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#cat #chasing #get #him #hope

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#empire #fall #fast #last #like

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#billions #cut #cutting #did #dollars

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#change #could #deduce #developed #exists

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? ↗

— Robert Barclay

#any #art #earthly #first #how

She’s the kind of woman I could see myself spending the rest of my life with—after I turn 99.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #life #relationships #woman

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. ↗

— John Bardeen

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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. ↗

— John Bardeen

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