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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
“The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.”
“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy’s devices.”
“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
“The gain to the winner is, in some odd way, always less than the loss to the loser.”
“If you don’t get elementary probability into your repertoire, you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”