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FELIX BAUMGARTNER I like to challenge myself.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through y...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER They call me Fearless Felix.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful pla...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the wor...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I'm retired from the daredevil business.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER