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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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"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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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure." »Author Unknown
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." »Carl Sandburg
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"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." »Will Durant
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"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." »Richard J. Ferris
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"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go." »Unknown
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"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." »Noam Chomsky
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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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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart." »R. Buckminster Fuller
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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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"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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"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
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"As an answer on any test, the best of you will always be better than the least of you." »Chase LeBlanc
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin
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"Calamity is the test of integrity." »Samuel Richardson
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"This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." »Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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"Ridicule is the best test of truth." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth." »George Crabbe
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