"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate.……" — John L. Phillips
"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."
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18 Quotes by John L. Phillips
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing…
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might…
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but…
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going…
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy…
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It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many…
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot…
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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have…
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your…
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear,…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness…
— Bruce Lee
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Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on…
— Carl Jung
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of…
— E. O. Wilson
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The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating…
— Bruce Lee
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow.…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made,…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one…
— George Barr McCutcheon
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of…
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