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Quote by Orville Wright
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, part

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright

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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. – Orville Wright

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Flight, Flying
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. – Orville Wright

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design
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

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Hope
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All experience is subjective. – Gregory Bateson

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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. – Jimmy Carter

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I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. Ill be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. – Dennis Franz

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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. – Samuel Dash

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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. – Damian Lewis

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. – Alan Watts

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