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"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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Personal Development

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning."
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"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."
World

"I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here."
People

"If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems."
Communication

"Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment."
Poetry

"There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing."
Time

"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
Space

"I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture."
Nature

"The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good."
Hope

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different."
Animals
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