Quotes

they had had no college education, no formal technical training, no experience working with anyone other than themselves, no friends in high places, no

In business it is the aggressive man, who continually has his eye on his own interest, who succeeds [he wrote]. Business is merely a

Bicycles were proclaimed morally hazardous. Until now children and youth were unable to stray very far from home on foot. Now, one magazine warned,

Years later, a friend told Orville that he and his brother would always stand as an example of how far Americans with no special

Of those who had been eyewitnesses at Kill Devil Hills the morning of the 17th, John T. Daniels Daniels also stressed, had it not

Being the kind of men they were, neither ever said the stunning contrast between their success and Samuel Langley’s full-scale failure just days before

Wilbur stressed that he did not intend to rise many feet from the ground, and on the chance that he were “upset,” there was

“Inside the chapel the temperature is always between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius,” she explained. “The humidity must never be more than 60 percent.

He could be firm without being dictatorial, disagree without causing offense. Nor was there ever a doubt that when he spoke he knew what

American society began to approximate Melville’s vision—a milling mob of conniving confidence men and questing consumers, rendered credulous by their dream of magical self-transformation