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So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary. Luca Parmitano
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Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon. Wendy Kopp
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars. Ellen Stofan
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We are kind of the sport utility vehicle in this thing. (Our) job is to get the astronauts off the surface of the Earth. The fun stuff happens when you get to the lunar surface. Brian Anderson
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On my watch, I've been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens. Dana Rohrabacher
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate. P. J. O'Rourke
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And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal. Umberto Guidoni
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There is an increased chance of blackouts due to magnetic currents on the power grids. This also creates more hazards for astronauts traveling through space. Richard Behnke
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Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship. Chris Hadfield
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Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life. James E. Faust
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What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with, Oliver North
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Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning. Michael Leunig
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp. W. G. Sebald
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I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice. Nick Hornby
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I look forward to meeting my accusers in a court of law, so they can be confronted with this lie. In the end, the truth will come out and I will be vindicated. Daunte Culpepper
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No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war. Stephen Kinzer
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I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. John le Carre
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I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system. Wayne Ayers
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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich. Chris Cleave
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For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make. David Mixner
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Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money. Dave Barry
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It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it. Dave Barry
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I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything. David Tennant
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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored. Catherine Deneuve
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease. JoAnn Manson
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The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers. Amy Johnson
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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Charles Dickens
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For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. Charles Studd
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(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life. Charles Stanley
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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. Charles Spurgeon
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I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends. Alanis Morissette
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Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker Alan Moore
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. Al Jarreau
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As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. Chloe Grace Moretz
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe
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We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future. Ken Kendrick
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We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future. Ken Kendrick
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Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show. Jenji Kohan
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What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system. Jennifer Lawless
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As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It's probably the actor in me. Bryan Cogman
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The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little. Neil Strauss
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We want to be the world's most engaging aquarium. Jeff Swanagan
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was. Pankaj Mishra
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He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning. Wilford Kale
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Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission. Luke Nosek
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The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation. Jonathan Todd
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Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants. Carl Guardino
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None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs. Jim Olson
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He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested. Hoop Scheffer
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Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect. Henry Petroski
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The phenomenon was that people who were walking at random, at their own favorite speed, not organized in any way, spontaneously synchronized, ... That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate. Steven Strogatz
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Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful. Lucy Jones
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Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful. Lucy Jones
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive. Alan Ball
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. David Suzuki
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Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. David Suzuki
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The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs. David Suzuki
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In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled. David Suzuki
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There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower
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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David R. Brower
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Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible. Hanno Langenhoven
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We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way. Joe Farmer
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We are positioning ourselves to hit every potential Internet segment out there. Dave Murray
hit hitting settling
We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us. Roderick Wilmont
hit night open rhythm
We struggled. We had a lot of open looks, but it wasn't our night to hit them. We just never got in a rhythm from the three-point line. But once again, we try not to live by that. Michael Redd
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We stopped at the stoplight and he just hit me. A. Hodge
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We started off slow offensively, but we made some adjustments. I'm really proud of the way we hit the ball. We didn't panic. Once we got going, it was sort of contagious. Craig Gibson
hitting
We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add. Cameron Bennerman
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We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside. Shawn Russell
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Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water. David Hasselhoff
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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. Alanis Morissette
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You'll never win anything with kids Alan Hansen
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Kids are natural scientists. Alan Alda
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. Al Purdy
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Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it. Al Madrigal
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself. Al Lewis
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We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction. Brad Lancaster
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It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland. Chris Colfer
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My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special. Chris Colfer
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This was a staff-implemented project. Three of our staff nurses championed the change; they did the training of the rest of the staff. Janie Schumaker
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Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm. Deborah Burger
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The nurses and staff at the hospice were the most wonderful people. I can't say enough about how they made my parents stay dignified. Linda Maxwell
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One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place. Rease Watson
struck
It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else. Ken Jury
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V
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I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed, David Hernandez
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They struck me as not the typical request. Susan Collins
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They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands. Christine Arron
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He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking. Judy Garland
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I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune. Antonia Bird
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him. Patti Smith