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History Has Recorded Nothing So Dramatic In Design, Nor So Skillfully Manipulated, As This Attempt To Create The National Reserve Association, Or The Federal Reserve.

Is Cruelty A Moral Judgment If It Is Fundamental To Forms Of Life? Who Is Man To Say That The Workings Of Nature, And Therefore Of The Divine Plan Of Which He Himself Is Part, Are Cruel?

Lying Under An Acacia Tree With The Sound Of The Dawn Around Me, I Realized More Clearly The Facts That Man Should Never Overlook: That The Construction Of An Airplane, For Instance, Is Simple When Compared [with] A Bird; That Airplanes Depend On An Advanced Civilization, And That Were Civilization Is Most Advanced, Few Birds Exist. I Realized That If I Had To Choose, I Would Rather Have Birds Than Airplanes.

It Is The Greatest Shot Of Adrenaline To Be Doing What You Have Wanted To Do So Badly. You Almost Feel Like You Could Fly Without The Plane.

I May Be Flying A Complicated Airplane, Rushing Through Space, But In This Cabin I'm Surrounded By Simplicity And Thoughts Set Free Of Time. How Detached The Intimate Things Around Me Seem From The Great World Down Below. How Strange Is This Combination Of Proximity And Separation. That Ground - Seconds Away - Thousands Of Miles Away. This Air, Stirring Mildly Around Me. That Air, Rushing By With The Speed Of A Tornado, An Inch Beyond. These Minute Details In My Cockpit. The Grandeur Of The World Outside. The Nearness Of Death. The Longness Of Life.