"Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport."

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Source : Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

Manfred von Richthofen

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“Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.”
“marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.”

Source : Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”
“Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.”

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“Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?”
“I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.”
“All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.”

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