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  1. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    Not incidentally, the Langley project had cost nearly $70,000, the greater part of it public money, whereas the brothers' total expenses for everything from 1900 to 1903, including materials and travel to and from Kitty Hawk, came to a little less than $1,000, a sum paid entirely from the modest profits of their bicycle business.
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  2. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
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  3. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    But it isn't true," Orville responded emphatically, "to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.
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  4. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power." Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.
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  5. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.
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  6. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT
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  7. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others."
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  8. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT
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