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Wilbur Wright set the tone in 1909 when he said, “Like all novices we began with the helicopter [in childhood] but soon saw that it had no future and dropped it. The helicopter does with great labor only what the balloon does without labor,
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lol Crazy ol' Wilbur runnin his mouth again
“and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Wilbur Wright set the tone in 1909 when he said, “Like all novices we began with the helicopter [in childhood] but soon saw that it had no future and dropped it. The helicopter does with great labor only what the balloon does without labor, and is no more fitted than the balloon for rapid horizontal flight. If its engine stops it must fall with deathly violence for it can neither float like the balloon nor glide like the aeroplane. The helicopter is much easier to design than the aeroplane but is worthless when done.”1”
― MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War
― MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War
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