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“I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.”

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“Your job is not to die for your country. Your job is to get the other poor sonofabitch to die for his country.”

“My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.”

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"It is with considerable disappointment you cannot give the explanation of these aircraft as I felt certain they belonged to our government. They have apparently meant no harm, but used as an instrumen…"

— Kenneth Arnold

Politics1915–1984

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"What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was endin…"

— Leo Tolstoy

Literature1828–1910

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"I also had braces. Glasses at 10, braces at 12: I was thrilled to have these things on my face. I mean, y'know, thinkin' about talkin' to a girl for the very first time in my life, I want a lot of cor…"

— Jerry Seinfeld

Entertainment1954

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