"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"

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"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"

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"Wonder exist in every act of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms-such things do exist. They're called books."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We salute the Brain, that made the Plane and the Train, But who made the Brain?"

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

Kids

"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."

Space

"My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments."

Life

"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came."

Time

"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

Science

"I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men."

Man

"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

Experience

"I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people."

People

"NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."

Public

"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."

Thought