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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever…

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Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark…

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It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class…

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The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is…

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I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like…

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If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

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When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a…

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Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off…

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The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out…

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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on…

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To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and…

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our…

Bernie Ecclestone

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not…

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The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Henry A. Wallace

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

Clifton Fadiman

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You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

Price Pritchett

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop…

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