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Alan Shepard

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."

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Akiroq Brost

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

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Akiroq Brost

"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."

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Akiroq Brost

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

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Akiroq Brost

"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."

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Akiroq Brost

"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."

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Akiroq Brost

"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."

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Akiroq Brost

"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."

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Akiroq Brost

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

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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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"The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed."
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"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."
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"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."
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"I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote."
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"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
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"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."
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