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

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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

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Sports
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Id like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. – Alan Shepard

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teacher
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We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. – Alan Shepard

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design
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. – Alice Walker

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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates

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History

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. – Byron White

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History

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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. – Epictetus

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Sons

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. – Patricia Sun

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If anyone asks for your autograph theyre showing you respect and give it back to them. – Johnny Rotton

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