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“Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.”
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“You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet.”
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“Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.”
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“The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.”
Source : George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.13, Courier Corporation
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“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.”
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“You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?”
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“When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."”
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“I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.”
Source : "Exclusive: John Mayall to Celebrate his 80th Birthday While Performing in Sarasota". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. September 28, 2013. 
