"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."

-- Adolf Galland

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“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.”
“Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.368, Simon and Schuster
“Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.”
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts. [...] I do not believe that the armed forces are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexual acts.”

Source : "Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government’s Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 29, 2007.
“The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.”

Source : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.
“Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.”
“We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.”
“My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.”

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