"The view of the Earth from the Moon……" — Frank Borman
"The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance."
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Frank Borman
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14 Quotes by Frank Borman
Frank Borman has 14 quotes on this site.
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
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Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give…
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And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless…
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A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
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I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over…
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[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of…
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It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does…
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There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at…
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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
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We have to earn our Wings every day.
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The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand…
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There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its…
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More Disk Quotes
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A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
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Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in…
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The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon…
— Deke Slayton
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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature…
— Eric S. Raymond
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly…
— Unknown Author
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Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
— Sam Ewing
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My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface,…
— Jessica Livingston
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even…
— Jay Roach
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With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that…
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history…
— Hermann Hesse
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