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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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"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."
Ohio

"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."
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"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
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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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"Research is creating new knowledge."
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"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."
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"Geologists have a saying - rocks remember."
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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."
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"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."
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"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
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"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
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"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
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