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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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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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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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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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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I'm obsessed with the vegan beauty brand RMS - their concealer is amazing.
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You will not see, in my career, the kind of returns this industry had in 2005 and 2006 for a very simple reason - the banks were undercapitalized, and returns are a function of earnings and capital.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
