"Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God."

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Source : Albert Scott Crossfield (2015). “Always Another Dawn: The Story Of A Rocket Test Pilot”, p.109, Pickle Partners Publishing

Albert Scott Crossfield

#Pilots Quotes #Aviation Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,”
“Learn diligence before speedy execution.”
“What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.”
“We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.
“Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
“If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.”
“Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”

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