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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Neil Armstrong

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Business Fruit Importance Plant Progress Success
There are places to go beyond belief.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Adventure Belief Beyond Peace Place Travel
You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Expectation Handle Life Need Preparation Unexpected Wrong
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Adult Business Life Risk
People love conspiracy theories.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Conspiracy Love One Liner People Theory
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Astronaut Attraction Fly Moon
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Characteristics Fly Goodness Machine Unique
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Complex Difficult Forgiveness Land Lunar Sensation Strange
Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Choose Circumstance Command Flight Luck Moon Particular Role
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Dedicate Expectation Job People Perfection Thinking
It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Crew Friendship Funny Hurt
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Magnificent Moon Surface
The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Bird Close Fly Machine Sail Wonderful
The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work

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