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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
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Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
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Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
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nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
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Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
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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.
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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
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