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"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."


"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."


"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."


"Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick."


"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."


"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"


"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."


"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."
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