"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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"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.“
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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."
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"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
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"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."
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"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."
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"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
-Timothy McVeigh
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"If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple."
-Dallas Willard
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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."
-Richard Stengel
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"Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs."
-Jeanine Basinger
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"I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies."
-Nicole Anderson
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
-Joe Davis
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