Quote by Alan Shepard
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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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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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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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Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. – Paul J. Meyer

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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. – George Washington

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The road to success is wherever people need another road. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. – Earl Nightingale

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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