"A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying."

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Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

Louise Thaden

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“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 15, 2006.
“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
“The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. But once we get drunk on that Love Whatever will be, will be.”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.”
“The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.”
“Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesnâ€™t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible.”

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