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Our mission is called Stardust, in part because we believe some of the particles in the comet will, in fact, be older than the sun.


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We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.
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“Yeah,”...
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“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
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“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
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“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
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JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
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JOHN H. GROBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
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THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
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NEIL GAIMAN There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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ANDREW WESTPHAL God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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MANDY HALE Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
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'Right, i...
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"I am," he said. He ...
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DON MARQUIS To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO