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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Achieve Aviation Capacity Given Impossible Proof Will

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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Follow Follow Through Formula Give Success Then Things Think Through You I Can

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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Above Air Ants Begin Below Bigger Blue Clear Clouds Earth Feel How Look Men Patch See Shining Somewhere Sun Swiftly Than Think Thought Up Watching White Would

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When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Adoration Bum By The Time Crowds Had Heard Hero Later Learned Name Press Public Racing Remember Say Scream Set Sometimes Stock Time Today Tomorrow Week Who You Your Zero

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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Bones Car Control Distances Driving Ears Engine Feel First-Class Get Getting Gives Helps High Hour Hundred Judging Long Miles Motor Nerves Practise Racing Rather Sense Simply Sound Speed Than Thing Through Training Tremendously Which You Your

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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Die Easiest Easiest Thing Hardest Live Thing World

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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Automobile Come Compare Did Excitement Fighting France Knew Must Racing

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Air Applause Congratulations Gratification More Outside Outside World Peculiar Pilot Receiving Than Victory Whole World Worth

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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

~Eddie Rickenbacker

Topics: Anyone Cheated Grim Know More Than Times

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Aviator

Born: October 8th, 1890

Died: July 27th, 1973

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