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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More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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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’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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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