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Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a…

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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to…
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so…
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive…
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his…
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.…
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

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You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will… — T.D. Jakes
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your… — Sylvia Plath
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon… — Jean Anouilh
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two… — Louis D. Brandeis
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out,… — Eddie Rickenbacker
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify… — Ian Mcewan
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the… — Christopher McDougall
For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to… — Harlan Coben
...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river… — Andrew Kaufman
Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity... — Surya Das
... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting… — Nick Vujicic

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