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• The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Inspiration, Aerospace, Apollo

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• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Depression, Mother, Suicide

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• A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mind, Danger, Concerned

  "Buzz Aldrin: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Baby, Brother, Buzz

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 8, 2014.

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• You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Mind, Attention

  "Buzz Aldrin, defending spaceflight with his fists" by John Borland, www.wired.com. September 07, 2007.

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• Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'

  Buzz Aldrin

  Beautiful, Visiting, Surface

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• If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Waiting, Want

  "Tea with Buzz Aldrin" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2011.

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• Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

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  Blessed, Keys, Elements

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• At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Self, Risk, Nerves

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• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

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  Thinking, Land, People

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• The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

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  Technology, Anchors, Mars

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

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  Dirty, Moving, Eye

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

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  Space, Orbit, Being There

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on 'In the Shadow of the Moon'". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Way, Changed, Supplication

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Firsts, Global Warming, Carbon

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• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Clouds, Ice

  "Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, Says Us Must Aim For Mars". Interview with James M. Clash, www.livemint.com. May 24 2013.

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• For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

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  Games, Needs, Losing

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

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  Brother, Moon, Years

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.31, National Geographic Books

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• There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

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  Space, May, Way

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, medium.com. July 8, 2014.

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• They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

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  Doors, Space, Counting

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• We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

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  Curiosity, Mankind, Feels

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.51, Crown Archetype

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• My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

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  Morning, Recovery, Sunday

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• To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

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  Goal, Commodity, Function

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.146, Crown Archetype

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• Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

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  Couple, Moon, Guy

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