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Aircraft Pilot Inspirational Quotes (4819)

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President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
John F. Kerry
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Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
George H. W. Bush
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Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
Charles Lindbergh
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Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.
George H. W. Bush
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If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.
Dan Halutz
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It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Richard Branson
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Your brand name is only as good as your reputation
Richard Branson
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I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.
Albert Kesselring
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War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.
Albert Kesselring
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Eddie Rickenbacker
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All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
Morgan Freeman
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It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
Sydney Pollack
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Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.
William Langewiesche
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I ask people who don't fly, How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?
William Langewiesche
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The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
William Langewiesche
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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
William Langewiesche
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I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.
Craig Ferguson
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Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
James Fallows
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I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
T. E. Lawrence
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With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
Sydney Pollack
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.
Harriet Quimby
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
Burt Rutan
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