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Christa McAuliffe

"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"

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"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"

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"Think of what you desire out of life."

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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."

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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."

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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"

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"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."

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"I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible."

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"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"Space is going to be commonplace."
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"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
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"My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments."
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"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."
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"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
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"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."
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"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."
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"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."
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