"Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you."

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Source : Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.54, Open Road Media

Stephen Coonts

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“Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.”
“Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.”
“There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.”
“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.”

Source : Roy Albert Crowson (1970). “Classification and Biology”, p.2, Transaction Publishers
“Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.”
“I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.”

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