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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

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Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Eddie Rickenbacker

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Born: October 8, 1890
Died: July 23, 1973 (aged 82)
Bio: Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was America's most successful fighter ace in the war.

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