"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement. The idea came from the huge power of the cyclons"

-- Henri Coanda

#Children Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Land Quotes

“All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2000). “The Plays”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions
“You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.”
“After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.”
“Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.”
“A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.”
“I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.”
“We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.”

Source : "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.”

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