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From Quotes by Charles Lindbergh
- [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
- In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to…
- If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch…
- Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
- Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of…
- Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes…
- 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…
- My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
- I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of…
- The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.
- Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
- On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely…
- After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
- As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
- What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
- We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told…
- I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way…
- We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them…
- Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
- My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions…
- Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
- From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.
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