"In less than twenty-five years . . .……" — Philip Gibbs
"In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it."
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18 Quotes by Philip Gibbs
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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
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At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to…
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There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.
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But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you…
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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and…
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It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of…
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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on…
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward,…
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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
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When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon…
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In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by…
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It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at…
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You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the…
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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a…
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The aeroplane will never fly.
— Unknown Author
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Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
— Lord Kelvin
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier…
— Isak Dinesen
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Unknown Author
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and…
— Prince Philip
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying…
— Harriet Quimby
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