"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."

Chance, Earth, Exploration, Space

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"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time."

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"Science always uses metaphor."

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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

Earth

"Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now."

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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

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"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."

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"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."

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"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."

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