"I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom"

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Source : "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

Felix Baumgartner

#Ideas Quotes #Skydiving Quotes

“We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.”
“In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.”
“Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.”
“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.”
“I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.”
“The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.”
“I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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