"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May â€˜43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in â€˜42 - even in my position. This aircraft didnâ€™t have any priority in design or production."

-- Adolf Galland

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“If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.”
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
“What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training of this sorts.”
“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be producedâ€¦ a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted.”

Source : "Knowledge of Life".
“In a game like this, the team that makes the least amount of mistakes prevails. We made a couple today. But it's all about the brotherhood. We all go down together.”
“We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.”
“Did you accomplish anything in your meeting with Kynan and Arik?â€ Limos, looking proud of herself, bobbed her head excitedly. â€œI broke Arikâ€™s ribs.â€ Reaver exhaled on a deep sigh. â€œAnything else?”
“Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.”

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