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-- Alan Shepard

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“Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.”
“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.”
“Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.”
“Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.155, New Directions Publishing
“So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.”
“Michael Phelps is a beast. He's like a human fish. It's really impressive.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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