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I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.

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Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Bent, Weight, Wood, Woods, Worse
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Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Feet, Harder, Kites, Rigid, Squares, Stable

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Bird, Birds, Conditions, Sea, Wind

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

Born, Future, Ideas, Like, Science, Workmanship

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

Doubtless, Hard Work, Science, Smile, Success, Unbelievers

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

Air, Cutting, Faces, Following, Slopes, Till
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