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" After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. "
Earth
Will
Stars
" Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects. "
Fighting
Aviation
New
" Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car. "
Attention
Airplane
Car
" How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? "
Wind
Quality
Sky
" If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. "
Rather
Would
Than
" I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. "
Civilization
Science
Serve
" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "
Always
Truth Is
Truth
" In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. "
Fade
Nature
Wilderness
" I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. "
Would
Birds
Had
" Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? "
Hand
Right
Left
" Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most? "
Talk
Think
Things
" It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down. "
Sit
Up
Stand Up
" Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. "
Life
Quality
Future
" Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. "
Live
Distance
Landscape
" Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. "
Future
Living
Impossible
" No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. "
Sense
Dignity
Jewish
" Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. "
Lies
Real
Freedom
" Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. "
Real
Freedom
Civilization
" The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. "
Achievement
Construction
Simple
" There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "
People
Defeat
War
" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "
War
Defeat
Preparation
" Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope. "
Time
Horizon
Hope
" To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten. "
Experience
Feet
Never
" Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. "
Virtue
Peace
Strength
" Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights. "
Aviation
Me
Why
" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
Looking
World
Looking Back
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