If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
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