Wilbur Wright Quotes
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
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Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
