Quote by Neil Armstrong
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and de

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. – Neil Armstrong

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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 didnt feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. – Neil Armstrong

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Space
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I think were going to the moon because its in the nature of the human being to face challenges. Its by the nature of his deep inner soul… were required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. – Neil Armstrong

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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The study of history is the playground of patriotism. – George M. Wrong

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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. – Vincent Van Gogh

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