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Charles Lindbergh Inspirational Quotes (73)

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A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
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Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
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A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
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Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.
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I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.
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Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
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What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
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I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
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The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and where perfect judgment would have advised against going?
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.
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Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
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The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
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Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
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From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.
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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
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Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.
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Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?
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Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.
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