Oswald Boelcke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
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Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
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If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
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Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.
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Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.
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When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
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Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
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For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.
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In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
-- Oswald Boelcke
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
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Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
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Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..
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As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
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We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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