"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."

Attention, Camping, Housekeeping, Living

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"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."

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"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

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"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done."

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"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

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"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

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"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."

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"Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest."

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