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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
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"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."
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"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
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"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst."
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"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."
Woman

"NASA should start thinking about this planet."
Thinking

"He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one."
Will

"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."
Friendship

"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."
Politics

"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
Flying

"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."
Career

"Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,."
Goal

"I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept."
People

"Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick."
Family
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