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“The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.”

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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

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