"You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it."
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"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity."
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"Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level."
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"Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations."
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"Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs."
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"Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response."
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"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space."
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"There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything."
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"How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!"
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"I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day."
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"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space."
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"Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space."
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"You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn."
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"Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals."
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"I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare."
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"Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room."
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"The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
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"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."
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"Poetry is a big space and I love it."
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