If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.Wilbur Wright
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
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The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
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