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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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