"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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“I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.”
“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

Source : Tallulah ch. 4 (1952)
“Our â€¦ reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.”
“Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.”
“What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.”
“You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.”
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

Source : William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.96, Al Manhal
“The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their â€˜self.â€™ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.”

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