Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

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"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Awareness

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers"

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope

"“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”"

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration