"In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air."

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Source : General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

Giulio Douhet

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“Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.”
“To a rat, a small hole is like a door.”
“Make sure you want it enough.”
“[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.”
“It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.”
“Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.”
“I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry.”

Source : "NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Justin Allgaier on starting young, marrying his childhood sweetheart and dealing with the dangers of stock car racing". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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