"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

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"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."

Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman

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"Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

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"When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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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."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

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"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

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"When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

Edward Dahlberg, American Novelist

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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."

Rebecca West, Irish Author

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"The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit."

Time

"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."

Recruitment

"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."

Military

"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."

Thought

"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."

Nature

"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."

Time

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

World

"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."

Attention

"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."

Opportunity

"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."

Being