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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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"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."
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"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject."
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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."
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"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
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"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."
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"Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?"
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"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
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"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."
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"When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won."
History
"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."
Science
"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."
Building
"With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds."
Power
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
Hope
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
Devil
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
Flying
"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."
Work
"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
Discovery
"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."
Knowledge
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