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• Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

  Terry Hanson

  Travel, Kissing, Thinking

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• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

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• We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

  David Lereah

  Track, Balloons, Great Depression

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• We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Real, Agency

  FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

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• Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Sorry, Liars

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.

  Lauren Kate

  Fall, Angel, Night

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Army, Invasion

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Hero, Discovery, Two

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Achievement, Humanity, Mind

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; it gives me the rest of the day to myself. I crossed the landing and went down stairs. Mind you, if there had been no stairs, I wouldn't even have attempted it.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

  Bernard Ziegler

  Jobs, Hero, Adventure

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• I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

  Deb Caletti

  Tired, Moon, Air

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Strong, Eye

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

  Gordon Cooper

  Lakes, Air, California

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• A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Doubt, Mind, Cameras

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• To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moon, Circles, White

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• Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

  John Candy

  Nuts, Chicago, Bucks

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.

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• My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

  Dianna Agron

  Good Day, Class, Goal

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• The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

  Buster Keaton

  Dad, Fall, Cat

  Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.

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• There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

  Tom Brokaw

  Military, Heart, Airplane

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• The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

  Bill Buxton

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