"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people……" — Edgar Mitchell
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty."
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Edgar Mitchell
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33 Quotes by Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Mitchell has 33 quotes on this site.
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We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the…
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It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of…
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When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started…
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Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue…
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The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's…
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We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what…
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The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash,…
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I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell…
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You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the…
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The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical…
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My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
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We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
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More Compulsion Quotes
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one of 264 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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