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#1. What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

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#2. In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

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#3. I am with the angels and just completely happy.

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#4. Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

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#5. I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. Looking for honest ways to lift one another would ... be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

Neal A. Maxwell

#7. When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

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#8. I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.

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#9. The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

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#10. How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

Richard Bach

#11. It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

Ernest K. Gann

#12. The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

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#13. The satisfying sound of bone giving way, as well as his outraged cry, made the you-had-it-coming-asshole angles sing.

J.A. Saare

#14. Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

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#15. I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

Rachel Platten

#16. We know that dreams fuel innovation.

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#17. ...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?

E.L. Doctorow

#18. I love working in the theater.

Didi Conn

#19. I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

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#20. My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean ... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

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#21. It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

Sting

#22. Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps ... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

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#23. People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

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#24. Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

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#25. Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

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#26. It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?

Stephen Fry

#27. Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

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#28. A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

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