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"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do."
"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch."
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once."
"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center."
"A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight."
"With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe."
"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power."
"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
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