Quote by Orville Wright
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the

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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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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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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Experience
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright

Category:
Knowledge
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design
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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. – Jim Henson

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design

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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design

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. – Robert Collier

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design

Websites are kind of useless. Theres so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized. – Dhani Harrison

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design

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor. – Stuart Brown

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Healing

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without ones willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. – Joyce Carol Oates

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alone

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where its going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where theyre going to be. – Lawrence Schiller

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Sports