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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.


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EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG