Quotes part 2

So this is one I heard on a mixtape by a dude called DeLaZoo. He used parts of the speech this was from as an intro to a song called "to the moon." I didn't like the song, but I did like the quote.

"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." -JFK


So this looks like a doozy, and it is, so we're gonna split this up into two parts, one for each paragraph.

He asks a good question. Why? why go to the moon, why climb mountains, why play above your head, why take up these challenges. Would it benefit Rice to play Texas, to get creamed? Or would it be better to play some tiny division 3 school for an easy win. Nobody would think badly of Rice for avoiding Texas.