Gregory H. Johnson Quotes

I progressed through my schooling, undergraduate and graduate degrees, excited about math and science and engineering, but really didn't think about being an astronaut at that point. It was kind of unreachable.

Gregory H. Johnson

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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

Jim Harrison

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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Jesse Ventura

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

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For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

Jenna Morasca

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It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.

Mavis Staples

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Soren Kierkegaard

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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

Stacy Schiff

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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Loretta Napoleoni

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Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Joss Whedon

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You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

Jose Angel Gurria

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I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Sebastian Pinera

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If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Scott Ritter

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