The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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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.
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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.
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