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"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter." »LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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"God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air." »Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
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"Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be." »LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." »Richard J. Ferris
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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." »Will Durant
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"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die" »Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." »Saint Jerome
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"Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto
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"We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride." »Metastasio
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