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"But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens."
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."

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