"The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast."

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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

Adolf Galland

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“I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
“Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.”
“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”
“Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.”
“Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe.”
“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.”
“Probably like a couple of years from now, there'll be a lot of girls here, and then it won't be just like all boys, so they'll have to build like another dorm for girls, so it'll be a huge impact if more girls start playing.”

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