"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on Airplane and Aviation
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on Atheism
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on Trying
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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

Forster, Edward M. on Education
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"The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path."

Bhagavad Gita on Obstacles
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on Dignity
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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Enthusiasm
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on Dullness
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