"The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'."

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Source : Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

Mary Roach

#Latin Quotes #Space Quotes #Sailing Quotes

“Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.”
“I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.”

Source : William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black
“Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.”
“I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.”
“When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.”
“I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.”
“For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.”
“You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

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