It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always … - Robertson Davies

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Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

Robertson Davies

It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

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