[A] smile is hovering about her lips, as if some playful speech were awaiting the right hearer. – George Eliot, “Another Love-Scene,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. – Alexis Carrel
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasnt in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. – Chuck Yeager
