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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

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
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Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.
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Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
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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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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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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
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There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
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How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
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I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
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What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
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