"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

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"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did."

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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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"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand."

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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."

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"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."

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

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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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