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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

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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Achievement Investment Moon Public Student Success
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
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Extreme Success Surprise
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Characteristics Fly Goodness Machine Unique
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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Expectation Handle Life Need Preparation Unexpected Wrong
How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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Determination Earth Gain Knowledge Library Mind Moom Progress Space Spirit
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
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
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.
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Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Done Moon Success
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Fly Freedom Joy Pilot
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Achievement Actual Century Expectation Substant Success
It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Moon Sound Time
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Engineer Pocket Protect Socks
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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Bite Business Motivational Overconfident Snap Thinking Try
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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Master Predict 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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