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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

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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And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
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What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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The only true law is that which leads to freedom.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?
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The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
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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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I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
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There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
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It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
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