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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”
― S.F. Chapman

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
― Helen Keller

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Dear Mornings,I know you hate me but don't you worry because I hate you too!”
― Sonya Watson

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal