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Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future.



~ Jigoro Kano ~

Are you One of Us or One of Them?

If we must all agree, all work together, we're no better than a machine. If an individual can't work in solidarity with his fellows, it's his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We've been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ in The Dispossessed

Some Apollo Astronaut Quotes

Here are some images and quotes by Apollo astronauts when contemplating the earth from space.



"Everything that I ever knew - my life, my loved ones, the Navy - everything, the whole world was behind my thumb." –James Lovell



"We went to explore the Moon, and in fact discovered the Earth." –Eugene Cernan

Damned if you ...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~