"But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better."

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Alan Shepard

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“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.”

Source : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books
“My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.”
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
“I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.”
“The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.”
“Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.”

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