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• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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• I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

  Paul Allen

  Stars, Thinking, Sky

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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• Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Flower, Shining

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fun, Adventure, Events

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• I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fall, Feet, Paint

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

  Charles Olson

  Men, America, Facts

  1947 Call Me Ishmael, section1.

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• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Long, Radio

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!

  Wernher von Braun

  Moving, Waiting, Vision

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Paint, Dishes, Pitcher

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• If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

  Willem de Kooning

  Needs, Arms, Wonder

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.135, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Ideas, Matter

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Believe, Mean

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, vol.1". Book by Douglas Adams, 2009.

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Accomplishment, Joy, Today

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• Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Independent, Reality, Two

  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Weyl, Arnold Sommerfeld (1952). “The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Clouds, Years

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Land

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Earth, Saws

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Mind

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• Space is the stature of God.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Star Gazing, Stature

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  Alexey Leonov

  Believe, Earth, Saws

  "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Apollo, Exploration

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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