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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Prosaist
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Oak Park
Illinois
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I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, You're famous and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him.
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
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Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?
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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
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Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.
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It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
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We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
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We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
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My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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