Quote by Wendell Willkie
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A naviga

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. – Wendell Willkie

Other quotes by Wendell Willkie

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. – Wendell Willkie

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Freedom
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. – Wendell Willkie

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work
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Flying
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The butterfly is a flying flower… – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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Flying

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. – Bill Gates

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Flying

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Flying

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further. – Werner von Braun

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Flying

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. – Otto von Bismarck

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Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done. – R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin

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Universe, The

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more. – Bonnie Raitt

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Family

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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History