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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.
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I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.
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I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
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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.
