"The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid." — Eddie Rickenbacker
"The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid."
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
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If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
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I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit…
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot…
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get…
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I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
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More Dying Quotes
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one of 3,128 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
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