Charles Lindbergh Short Quotes

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

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Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

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One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

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I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

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Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

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The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

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What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific.

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Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

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When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

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I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

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When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

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If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

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Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

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Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

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At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

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Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

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The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

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The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

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I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

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Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

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I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

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