Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
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Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation."
Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance."
Pancho Barnes
Aviator
"Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime."
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"Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off."
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"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."
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"Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it."
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"There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end."
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"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use."
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"The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower."
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"The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service."
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"We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive."
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"I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God."
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"Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me."
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"Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived."
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"The best you can hope for is a great collaborator."
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"I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly."
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"I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die."
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"The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'"
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"We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all."
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"South Wales is a hub of aviation."
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"They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing."
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"Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity."
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"Through you, we feel as giants, once again."
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