Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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MacAllister commented recently that Plato was right, that democracy is mob rule, that the voters can be counted on consistently to find the candidate with the fewest scruples and put him in office.
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«From the Prestige come a few little glazes with the appearance of plasticine.'
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'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
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It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.
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I think it is possible for the world to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame on it - that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life.
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb garlic blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
