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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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.
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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
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A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
