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You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

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No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

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We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

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All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

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One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

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Small sacrifices must be made.

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Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.

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