“No man is above the law and no man is below it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers—and never succeeding.” – Gian Carlo Menotti
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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” – J. D. Salinger
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“Land really is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
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48 years ago today, Vladimir Remek became the first person not of Soviet or American citizenry to enter space, when we wore the patch of his native Czechoslovakia up to the Salyut 6 space station onboard the Soyuz 28 mission. He is considered today the first astronaut of the European Union, some 30 years before its existence. Upon his return, he was widely celebrated across his native Czechoslovakia. Remek was only able to travel to space alongside a Russian cosmonaut, which prompted the popular joke: "Why didn't the Soviets send up two Czechoslovak cosmonauts? Because they would've landed in West Germany." READ about the mission and wider program... (1978)
