Adolf Galland Quotes
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
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During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
