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Quote by Alan Shepard
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition an

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. – Alan Shepard

Other quotes by Alan Shepard

Its a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that ones safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. – Alan Shepard

Category:
Government
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Alan Shepard
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Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. – Alan Shepard

Category:
Sports
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Alan Shepard
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Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. – Alan Shepard

Category:
Morning
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Other Quotes from
History
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isnt there. It has to do with history. – P. J. ORourke

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History

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. – Allen Nevins

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History

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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History

Random Quotes

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles

Category:
good

The Cardinal is at his wits end — it is true that he had not far to go. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Ignorance & Stupidity

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (Romans 7:19 – Bible

Category:
Conflict

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. Weve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. – Chuck Norris

Category:
Change