"As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week."

-- Mae Jemison

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“When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.”
“There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.”
“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.”
“On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”
“What molds us is what maims us.”
“How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.”
“To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.”

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