I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.Wilbur Wright
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.
Wilbur Wright
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
Wilbur Wright
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
Wilbur Wright
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
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