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"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
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"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday."
Risk
"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
Research
"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
Space
"Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars."
Love
"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."
Civilization
"Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways."
Time
"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig."
Science
"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."
Inspirational
"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density."
Behavior
"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected."
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