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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

  Neil Armstrong

  Mean, Society, Research

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• As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Silver, Surface

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• I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

  Neil Armstrong

  Games, White, Space

  "Neil Armstrong's last interview: rare glimpse of man and moon mission" by Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

  Neil Armstrong

  Successful, Ecstatic

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• This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Fog, Dust

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

  Neil Armstrong

  Airplane, Missing, Excitement

  "Neil Armstrong Dead: First Man On The Moon Dies At 82", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2012.

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• The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. 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.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Moon, Toes

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• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

  Neil Armstrong

  Astronaut, Century, Ends

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• I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

  Neil Armstrong

  Levels, Discourse, Public Discourse

  "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (p. 10), www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 1999.

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• Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

  Neil Armstrong

  Years, Littles, Next Year

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• Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

  Neil Armstrong

  People, Sticks, Figures

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

  Neil Armstrong

  Names, People, Gigs

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

  Neil Armstrong

  Aviation, Flight, Casts

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• Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

  Neil Armstrong

  Country, Destiny, Views

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• It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eerie, Apollo, Strange

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• There are two of them up here.

  Neil Armstrong

  Two, Apollo, Star Gazing

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Flying, Astronaut

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• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. 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.

  Neil Armstrong

  Unique, Flying, Machines

  "Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story". www.popularmechanics.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

  Neil Armstrong

  Airplane, Aviation, Busy

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

  Neil Armstrong

  White, Pockets, Diagrams

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks during National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

  Neil Armstrong

  Powerful, Moon, Technology

  Interview at "The New Space Race", August 2007.

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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.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Flight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Ohio

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• The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

  Neil Armstrong

  Travel, Regret, Enormous

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• When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

  Neil Armstrong

  Jobs, Party, People

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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