Famous quotes containing the words upper, atmosphere and/or rocket:
“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivabale encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
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