The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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