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The Earth was the only thing in the world — in the universe — that had any color. Everything else was black and white but the earth was beautiful blue and white and brownish continents. That was the most impressive sight for me of the entire flight.

— Frank Borman

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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.

Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible.

Countdown: An Autobiography (1988)

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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