"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."

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Source : Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

Douglas Bader

#Strong Quotes #Wings Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.”
“The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.”

Source : Ellen Key (1911). “Love and Ethics”
“The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.”
“It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second season or doing another chapter. I keep looking at it as books in a series, and this season is the first book.”
“Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.”
“Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.”
“We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”
“In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.”

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