Alberto Santos-Dumont Quotes About Balloons
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.
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To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
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The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
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