People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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