American - Aviator | October 8, 1890 - July 23, 1973
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I am not a labor hater.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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