". . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow."

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Source : James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.85, Casemate / Greenhill

James McCudden

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“I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'”
“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

Source : Anne Hébert, Alan Brown (1975). “Poems”, Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company
“Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.”
“Christ cannot live His life today in this world without our mouth, without our eyes, without our going and coming, without our heart. When we love, it is Christ loving through us.”
“All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.”

Source : Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' Ãªtre, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”

Source : "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.
“Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.”

Source : Song: Part Of The Plan, Album: Souvenirs, 1974
“The unfolding of the unexpected becomes the energy that drives you. You discover how thirsty you are for exploration without analysis. You become strangely at home in a place you can't define. You are truly creating.”

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