#bet

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. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#become #began #better #bit #candidates

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet. ↗

— Cybill Sheperd

#battle #bet #may #nor #race

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#beyond #caused #control #distinguish #essential

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong! ↗

— Allan Sherman

#beginning #better #bladder #cause #end

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#difference #little #reality #recommend #unreality

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#choose #forced #four #house #i

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time. ↗

— John Shimkus

#better #breaks #chain #command #communication

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay