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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 an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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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 establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Bernard M. Baruch
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To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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