"Many years ago the great British explorer..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
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“Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?”
“The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.”
“Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.”
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“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”
“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
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“Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.”
“Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up”
“For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.”