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Quotes November 24, 2017

Battle of Britain Anniversary – Spitfire Ace with 26 kills

 
 
 
 

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (/ˈbɑːdər/; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.[1][2]

Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. In December 1931, while attempting some aerobatics, he crashed and lost both his legs. Having been on the brink of death, he recovered, retook flight training, passed his check flights and then requested reactivation as a pilot. Although there were no regulations applicable to his situation, he was retired against his will on medical grounds.[3] After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, however, Douglas Bader returned to the RAF and was accepted as a pilot. He scored his first victories over Dunkirk during the Battle of France in 1940. He then took part in the Battle of Britain and became a friend and supporter of Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his “Big Wing” experiments.

In August 1941, Bader bailed out over German-occupied France and was captured. Soon afterward, he met and was befriended by Adolf Galland, a prominent German fighter ace.[4] Despite his disability, Bader made a number of escape attempts and was eventually sent to the prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle. He remained there until April 1945 when the camp was liberated by the First United States Army.

Bader left the RAF permanently in February 1946 and resumed his career in the oil industry. During the 1950s, a book and a film, Reach for the Sky, chronicled his life and RAF career to the end of the Second World War. Bader campaigned for the disabled and in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 1976 was appointed a Knight Bachelor “for services to disabled people”[5] and continued to fly until ill health forced him to stop in 1979. Three years later, at the age of 72, Bader died on 5 September 1982, after a heart attack.

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Quotes November 23, 2017

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
Socrates
 
 
 
 
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexander Dumas
 
 
 
 
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
 
 
 
 
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Jon Katz
 
 
 
 
Friends are the family you choose.
Jess C. Scott
 
 
 
 
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.
Jay McInerney
 
 
 
 
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
Dean Koontz
 
 
 
 
A friendship that can end never really began.
Publilius Syrus
 
 
 
 
Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
Unknown

 
 
 
 
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins

Quotes November 22, 2017

The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk,
medical researcher

 
 
 
 
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone… You don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’
Erin McKean
 
 
 
 
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders
Sheryl Sandberg
 
 
 
 
Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
Meryl Streep
 
 
 
 
(Best intentions)
Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.
Simon Mainwaring
 
 
 
 
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Margaret Chase Smith
 
 
 
 
The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.
Jeff Bezos
 
 
 
 
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quotes November 21, 2017

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli,
political philosopher and historian
 
 
 
 
Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold,
diplomat
 
 
 
 
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan,
political leader and orator
 
 
 
 
The great isn’t something accidental; it must be willed.
Vincent van Gogh,
artist
 
 
 
 
I am not worried about the future at all. I don’t like to run it down. I don’t like to think of it being too dark, because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering,
inventor and business leader
 
 
 
 
The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?
Sandra Cisneros,
writer

Quotes November 20, 2017

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith,
leadership coach
 
 
 
 
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
Andrew Grove,
engineer and entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Progress is not merely improving the past; it is moving forward toward the future.
Kahlil Gibran,
poet and artist
 
 
 
 
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt,
26th US president
 
 
 
 
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard,
writer
 
 
 
 
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden,
basketball player and coach

Quotes November 19, 2017

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus,
writer
 
 
 
 
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren Kierkegaard,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb
 
 
 
 
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.
Bethany Hamilton
 
 
 
 
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan,
comedian and writer
 
 
 
 
If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
Wanda Sykes,
comedian
 
 
 
 

Astrophysicists assure us the universe has no center; therefore, you cannot be it.
David McCullough Jr.,
educator and writer

Quotes November 18, 2017

Don’t forget that I cannot see myself — that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
Jacques Rigaut,
poet

 
 
 
 
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin,
naturalist

 
 
 
 
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson,
writer
 
 
 
 
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome,
writer and humorist
 
 
 
 
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole of which these are the shining parts, is in the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the lightest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith
 
 
 
 
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
Shunryu Suzuki

 
 
 
 
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
 
 
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin

 
 
 
 
So many of the most important creative ideas happen collaboratively.
Steven Johnson

Quotes November 17, 2017


It have been one of the richest experiences of my life…feeling that I was being really useful to the boys on the other side.
Unidentified actress about working in a war factory. From an excerpt in Adriane Ruggiero, American Voices from World War I (2003), p. 79–80, citing Norma B. Kastl, “Wartime, the Place and the Girl”, Independent magazine (unidentified issue).
 
 
 
 
Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?
Daniel Daly, Battle cry at the Battle of Belleau Wood, World War I, June 1918
 
 
 
 
Some of us still recall World War I, which awakened our generation to the fact that history was not a matter of the past, as a thoughtless philosophy of the hundred years’ peace would have us believe. And once started, it did not cease to happen. I will seek to evoke the scenes we have witnessed and take the measure of our frustrations. Great triumphs and grave disappointments have been met with. However, it is not a balance of our experiences, achievements and omissions that stands to question; nor am I scanning the horizon for a mere break. The time has come to take note of a much bigger change.
Karl Polanyi, “For a New West” (1958)
 
 
 
 
The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
A. J. P. Taylor, The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
 
 
 
 
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions — but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.
Edmond Taylor, in The Fossil Monarchies.

Quotes November 16, 2017

“If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself.”
Jocelyn Murray

 
 
 
 
“You are not a mess. You are a feeling person in a messy world.”
Glennon Doyle Melton
 
 
 
 
“This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.”
Philip Arnold
 
 
 
 
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 
 
 
 
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
 
 
 
 
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you’ll live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”
Frank Crane
 
 
 
 
Feminism is for everybody.
Bell Hooks
 
 
 
 
Everyone has a story that will stop your heart.
Claudia Shear
 
 
 
 
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial.
Philip James Bailey,
poet
 
 
 
 

“They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.”
James Franco

Quotes November 15, 2017