Wernher von Braun Quotes
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
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taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
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Two seconds are a thousand years.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.
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I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.
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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
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A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
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I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
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We will never conquer death.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
