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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh
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Charles Lindbergh
Age: 72 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 4
Died: 1974
Died: August 26
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh
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The Lone Eagle
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Chas A. Lindbergh
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I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
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I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
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I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
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