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Leroy Chiao

"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."

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"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."

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"Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene."

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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

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"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

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"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn't mean it's good or bad. Probably means it's no big deal."

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"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."

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"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

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"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."
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"There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful."
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"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."
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"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."
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"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."
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"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."
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"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."
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"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
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"I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing."
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