Life’s a tough proposition…
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
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A man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What, me crazy?
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Answer me this: If I’m so “crazy,” then why did they choose me to be their spokesperson to the people of Earth?
War
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
— Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
We just decided to go
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From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go.
— Jim Lovell
There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 in which astronaut Jim Lovell is hosting a dinner party at his house. At some point in the evening he escapes the hubbub of his guests and takes a seat in a lawn chair in the back yard. When someone comes out to join him he utters the phrase above.
The moon landings were the culmination of a gargantuan series of tasks. Thousands of people invested hundreds of thousands of hours coordinating and delivering on thousands of tasks. It wasn’t a miracle that we landed on the moon. We just set our minds to it and decided to go.
Theme of the week: Just decide to go.
Creativity
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Creativity: a type of process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.