"Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted."

-- Otto Lilienthal

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“The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.”
“It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.”
“I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.”
“The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.”
“Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.”

Source : Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume
“No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.”

Source : "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 09, 1966.
“Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers donâ€™t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, thatâ€™s grass! A pink blur! Thatâ€™s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.”
“Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].”

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