"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

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David Morse, American Actor

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Yuri Gagarin, Russian Astronaut

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"The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring."

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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."

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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."

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"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."

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"But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit."

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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."

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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

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"Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions."

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"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."

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"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."

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"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked."

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"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."

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"Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it."

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"And so the Universe ended."

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"And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."

Society

"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."

Emotion

"He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask....On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live."

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