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Quotes by Aviator
"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."
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"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death."
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"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."
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"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
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"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
Will,
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"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
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"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
Life,
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"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."
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"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
13
"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
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"I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin."
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"If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down."
13
"I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes."
Time,
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"In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable."
12
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
12
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
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"One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above."
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"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."
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"Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it."
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"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."
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"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."
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"We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field."
9
"This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour."
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"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."
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"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."
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