"A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working."
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
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"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity."
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"What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space."
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"... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space."
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"The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America."
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"Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth."
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"In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
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"We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share."
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"America has tossed its cap over the wall of space."
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"We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent."
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"Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination."
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"I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?"
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"Space is the stature of God."
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"The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy."
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"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken."
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"I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost."
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"Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both."
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