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All Quotes Collection
"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing."
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"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited."
200
"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."
56
"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."
42
"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
67
"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
48
"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."
59
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
60
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
76
"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did."
50
"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."
42
"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand."
41
"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
47
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
81
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."
Work,
47
"I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information."
30
"I am still in shock and awe at being fired."
27
"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."
22
"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes."
31
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
52
"President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly."
25
"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."
52
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
72
"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."
50
"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
50
"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
49
"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
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