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> [I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lindbergh/i-may-be-flying-a-complicated-airplane-rushing-through-space-but-in/)

[Charles Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lindbergh/)

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