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🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

"Sex is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just free. And that's how it should be. It's spectacular."

"I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me."

"The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!"

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🇫🇷Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Literature

1900–1944

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."

"You know you are getting old when all the names in your black book have MD after them."

"Amelia Earhart interview following the 1932 transatlantic flight"

"The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!"

"I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen."

"It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"

"Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again."

"Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it."

"We've proven that we can't win on the road or in front of our home crowd."

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."

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🇺🇸Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Literature

1906–2001

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

"The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power."

"George, if you deport the police from America, you get Mexico."

"Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?"

"No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see."

"We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them."

"An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance."

"We do all of our work in consideration of Murphy's Law."

"He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars."

"There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things. This was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, and I handed Jim and Bill their lines from the Holy Scriptures."

"Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar."

"If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough."

"It made a real big difference with everyone not trying to sort of snap a picture every time I was walking around the streets. I hope it just continues for Harry as well when he is there."

"Back in the 1980s, I wrote a long detailed article about the design concepts that the AR-15's creator, Eugene Stoner, put into this weapon, and the ways it changed before going into service as the military’s M-16."

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🇷🇺Valentina Tereshkova

Politics

b. 1937

"If I had money, I would enjoy flying to Mars... This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back."

"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."

"Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to."

"Once again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet or Venus. What, then, are they? Spacecraft from another world?"

"If it was a horrible thing I was known for, like some horrible pop song, it would annoy me, but it doesn't. I'm proud of it."

"When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated."

"Yesterday I was in President Bush's home state of Texas. He no longer lives there. Now he lives in the state of denial."

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