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"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird."

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
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