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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.

Neil Armstrong

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Case Change Drama Improvement Science Space Technology
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Firework Guess Ledger Piece Recognize Work
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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Achievement Attack Believe Difficult Goals Science Spirit Team Work
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Atom Century Development Energy History Light Remember Space Technology
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
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 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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Class History Reading Regret
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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Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Astronaut Attraction Fly Moon
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Magnificent Moon Surface
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Boy Dreamss Education Important Inspirational
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Done Moon Success
I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Business Busy Dedication
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Available Come Conclusion Information Life Place Proof Science
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
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Science Technology

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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