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"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
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"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen."
"Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies."
"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."
"I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction."
"There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do."
"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
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"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."
"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."
"I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use similar technology and manufacturers, and similar human qualities of organization and daring. Can we not make the transition from automated aerospace killing to automated aerospace exploration of the solar system in which we live?"
"Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air, made it into a liquid, put some impurities in a ruby, attached a magnet, and detected the fires of creation."
"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."
"Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up-the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains-were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff."
"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
"It is now almost possible to assign color combinations, based on the colors of clouds and sky, to every planet in the Solar System-from the sulfur-stained skies of Venus and the rusty skies of Mars to the aquamarine of Uranus and the hypnotic and unearthly blue of Neptune. Sacre-jaunt, sacre-rouge, sacre-vert. Perhaps they will one day adorn the flags of distant human outposts in the Solar System, in that time when the new frontiers are sweeping out from the Sun to the stars, and the explorers are surrounded by the endless black of space. Sacre-noir."
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