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		I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
	
	  Dan Fogler Dan Fogler
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		Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
	
	  Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
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		Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
	
	  Lady Bird Johnson Lady Bird Johnson
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		When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
	
	  Iain Duncan Smith Iain Duncan Smith
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		My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
	
	  Talulah Riley Talulah Riley
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		In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
	
	  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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		Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
	
	  Adlai E. Stevenson Adlai E. Stevenson
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		I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.
	
	  William J. Duiker William J. Duiker
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		Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
	
	  Mark Waters Mark Waters
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		Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
	
	  Burt Rutan Burt Rutan
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		There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
	
	  Marcel Proust Marcel Proust
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		I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
	
	  Ellen Ochoa Ellen Ochoa