"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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"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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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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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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"It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

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"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."

Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher

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"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."

John Forbes Nash, Jr., American Mathematician

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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."

Lonnie Earl Johnson, American Criminal

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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

Bruce Lee, American Actor

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James Allen, British Author

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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."

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"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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"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."

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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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"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

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

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