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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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

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Morning
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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey

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History

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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History

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, thats the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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History

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. – Karl Marx

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History

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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. – Francis Bacon

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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? – Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Its so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. – and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear Manic Monday on the radio, and you dont even know this person, and theyre listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind. – Debbi Peterson

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