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"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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"It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that."
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"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."
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"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
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"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
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"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit."
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"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
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"Never wait for trouble."
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