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“I volunteered for a number of reasons. One of these, quite frankly, was that I thought this was a chance for immortality. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.”

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"I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian"

— Shushanik Kurghinian

Literature1876–1927

#writing

"In this way, we in the U.S., who may otherwise be moved to care about the fate of millions in Yemen whose lives are being upended with our own government’s complicity, are lulled into complacency, wit…"

— Daniel Kovalik

Politics1968

#wisdom

"I don't give a damn what the President of the United States wants to do or what anybody else wants to do. We will not waterboard; we will not torture... We will not torture people... It doesn't work, …"

— John McCain

Politics1936–2018

#life

"Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you wan…"

— Stanley Hauerwas

Ethics1940

#knowledge