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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"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."
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"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."
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"We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts."
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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
Earth

"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
Earth

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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"The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space."
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