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Quote by Alan Shepard
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. - Alan Shep

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. – 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

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Government
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Alan Shepard
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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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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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Other Quotes from
History
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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro

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History

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie

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History

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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History

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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History

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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. – Mao Zedong

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