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Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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You teach best that which you need most to learn.
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I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
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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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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
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