"If we all worked on the assumption that……" — Orville Wright
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
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20 Quotes by Orville Wright
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and…
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not…
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion…
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released…
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over…
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its…
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but…
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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to…
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached…
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
— Mary J. Blige
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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