Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1727.
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To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
A Distant Mirror -
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
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