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"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
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"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
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"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."
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"The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."
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"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
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"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
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"It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission."
Time
"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
Theory
"As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station."
Time
"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
Earth
"It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home."
Home
"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
Learning
"We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that."
Learning
"UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago."
Time
"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."
Flying
"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
Office
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