"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."

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"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Slavery, Power, Opportunity

"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Religion, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Guilt, Cruelty, Confession, Humanity

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

George Eliot, British Author

History, Men, Persecution

"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Gender, Truth, Conflict

"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Evil, Conflict, People

"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Alan Shepard

"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."

Training, Airplanes

"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."

Family, Financial, College

"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."

Excitement, Space

"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."

Attitude,

"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."

Life, Fame

"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Being, Sense

"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."

Sports, School

"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."

Science, Mind, Pretty

"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."

Achievement, Feet, First

"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."

History, Talent, Ability, Being