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"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    Share

"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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