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NEIL ARMSTRONGThe single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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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.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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