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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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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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'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
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Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.
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Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
