"I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books."

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Source : "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight" by Marcia Dunn, The Deseret News, p. A, May 01, 1991.

Alan Shepard

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“Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.”
“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't”

Source : "Fictional character: Oskar Schindler". "Schindler's List", www.imdb.com. 1993.
“You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.”

Source : "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.
“Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious."”
“We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.”

Source : Ian Hacking (1984). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.142, Cambridge University Press
“The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.”

Source : "Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science". Book by Amir D. Aczel, 2000.
“Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.”
“I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.”

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