You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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