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There are some moments in one's life which tickle one's nerves particularly and the first solo-flight is among them.


Manfred Von Richthofen

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JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER