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  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Alexander Maclaren ''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Mary Kay Ash Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • George Orwell As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Beth Ditto As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Barack Obama Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Crescimbeni Don't be afraid of flying; be afraid of crashing!
    Joseph Crescimbeni
    American aphorism writer (1927 - 1985)
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  • Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Lord Kelvin Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
    Lord Kelvin
    British physicist (born William Thomson) (1824 - 1907)
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  • Adolf Galland I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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