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It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
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I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
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I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.
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Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
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We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
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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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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
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The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
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And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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