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"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
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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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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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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."
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"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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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."
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"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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