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Quotes by Aviator
"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."
"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."
"The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes."
"If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down."
"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."
"When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!"
"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."
"I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly."
"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death."
"Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it."
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