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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.

Neil Armstrong

If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Be Yourself Expensive Finding Plave University
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
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
It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Crew Friendship Funny Hurt
It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Moon Sound Time
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Blow Dust Fog Ground Increase Land
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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Available Come Conclusion Information Life Place Proof Science
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Airplane Excitement Missing Moon
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
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Believe Giving Goodness Heart Heartbeat Lord Run Street
I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Business Busy Dedication
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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Deal Different Going Moon Pretty Suppose
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.
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Dedicate Expectation Job People Perfection Thinking
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Demostrate Forever Human Opportunity Planet Unlimited Vision
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Matter Moon Science

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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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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