Douglas Bader Quotes

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

Douglas Bader

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 10, 1910 - September 5, 1982

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Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.

John Cornwell

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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

Andrew Wiles

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Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

Jeffrey Kluger

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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

Anand Giridharadas

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I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

Amanda Seyfried

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Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

Matt Bomer

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Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture.

Lucio Tan

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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You have to have the right mind-set.

Bonnie Blair

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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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I love hats. I love vests. I do like to look sharp.

Boyd Holbrook

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