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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Age: 82 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 8
Died: 1973
Died: July 23
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
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