"When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back."
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"I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment."
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"It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see."
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"Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous."
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"I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars."
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"Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer."
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"One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace"
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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"If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization."
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"It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community."
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"There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity."
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"The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none."
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"... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll."
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"Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera."
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"Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years."
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"I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is."
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"Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love."
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"All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either."
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