What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.
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- Charles Lindbergh
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- As quoted in Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero (2002) by Von Hardesty
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