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Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

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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
Wrong
Turns
Right
Sometimes
Important
Daring

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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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My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
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One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.
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Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
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You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
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Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
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