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• ‟ Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

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• ‟ People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

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• ‟ To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

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• ‟ In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

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• ‟ There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

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• ‟ Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

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• ‟ Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

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• ‟ I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

  - Mary Roach