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last updated: November 28, 2023

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
-- Alan Bean

Source : Interview with Jim Plaxco, www.astrodigital.org. October 3, 1992.

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I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
-- Carl Erskine

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MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.
-- Charles Portis

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black

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“Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.”
“A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.”
“The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.”
“The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.”
“So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.”
“Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.”
“It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.”
“We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.”
“I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.”