After touching down gently on the grass, the port wheel brake seized without warning, causing the Stirling to swing and both undercarriages to collapse. The aircraft slid to a halt on its belly in the middle of the airfield facing Bluebell
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“ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
“You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the terms be equal. But we trust that the gods may grant us fortune as good as yours, since we are just men fighting against unjust, and that what we want in power will be made up by the alliance of the Lacedaemonians, who are bound, if only for very shame, to come to the aid of their kindred. Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.
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― History of the Peloponnesian War
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― History of the Peloponnesian War
“There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.”
― Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations
― Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations
“Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]”
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“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.”
― Birth Of Britain, 55 B.C. To 1485
― Birth Of Britain, 55 B.C. To 1485
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