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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."

"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."

"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."

"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
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