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Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
Charles Lindbergh
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Charles Lindbergh
Age: 72 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 4
Died: 1974
Died: August 26
Air Force Officer
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Aviator
Diarist
Engineer
Fighter Pilot
Inventor
Peace Activist
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Lucky Lindy
The Lone Eagle
Slim
Chas A. Lindbergh
Charles Lindburgh (misspelling)
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Aviator
Life
Aviation
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Flying
Adventure
Beauty
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Freedom
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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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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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I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.
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I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: What is I? Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
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Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
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Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.
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From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.
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Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .
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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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I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.
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One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
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At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
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This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.
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But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.
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Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
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Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
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We are all consumers and should all be producers.
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