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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
"The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women."
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