"Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities,……" — Pappy Boyington

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• One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if… — William Hazlitt
• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let… — Joseph Sobran
• A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand… — Ambrose Bierce
• I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match… — Serena Williams
• I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search,… — Wes Anderson
• It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great… — Bill Rancic
• Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the… — Eugene Field
• I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my… — Jennie Finch
• I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who… — Jennifer Egan
• A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out… — Nathan Farragut Twining
• The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch,… — Jimmy Doolittle

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