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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

Beryl Markham

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
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Achieve Dignity Work
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
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Curves Future Men Stars
We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand.
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Dignity Fall Nature Pain
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Book Dog Loneliness
A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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Cowboy Emotional Horse
Success breeds confidence.
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Confidence Inspirational Success
She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.
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Character Freedom Gently Liberation
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
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Demand Parent Views
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
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Again Drugs Memories
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not… I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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Doubt Hands Maps
But, for a little while, this is the place for us — a good place too–a place of good omen, a place of beginning things–and of ending things I never thought would end.
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Ends Good Littles
I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.
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Dreaming Horizon Learn Mine Wander
The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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Dark Landmarks Light Rocks
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things – the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold – were false to you.
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Loneliness Tools Vanity
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead.
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Character Hands Yield
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Knowledge Lifetime People

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

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