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

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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I didnt mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. – Alan Shepard

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Science
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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

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Success
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Other Quotes from
History
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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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History

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. – Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

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History

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

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History

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. – Alan Greenspan

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History

Random Quotes

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldnt get anyone else to listen to. – Franklin Pierce Adams

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Confidence

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. – Ginger Rogers

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Life

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – Hodding Carter

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Hope

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. – Homer

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great