- Orville Wright
(08/19/1871 – 01/30/1948)
US inventor (brother of Wilbur)
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"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
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| "The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat." |  |
"I feel despair twenty-four hours a day at the way we are treating the world and what we are piling up for ourselves. But you have to keep fighting, or what are we on earth for? I believe so much in what I am doing that I cannot let up."
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"For the last few days I've been wondering why I had been chosen to receive this honour... And now I believe I know the answer: it's to reward me for my longevity!"
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| "Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and—here's the big curve—for your parents." |  |
"Man is the only creature that seems to have the time and energy to pump all his sewage out to sea, and then go swimming in it."
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