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"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."
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"There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made out (her eyes were admirable) the Acropolis with a white streak or two which must, she thought, be the Parthenon, her soul expanded with her eyeballs, and she prayed she might share the majesty of the hills, know the serenity of the plains, etc. etc., as all such believers do."
"Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute."
"Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known..."
"The greatest danger to man in space was man himself."
"We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us-who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed."
"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."
"We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us."
"Dream to reach the stars, awaken to reach the edge of the universe."
"I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill."
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with."
"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."
"I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on."
"You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where."
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