"Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'"

-- Eileen Collins

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Airplane Quotes

“Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?”
“Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.”
“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.”

Source : Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah
“All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)”
“Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.”

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