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

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
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Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.
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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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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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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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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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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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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
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Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, Jonathan would say, other times, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
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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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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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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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Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.
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What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures we are the otters of the universe.
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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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