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"  We didn&amp;#039;t know if we could break the sound barrier. But it was our duty to try. That&amp;#039;s the way I looked at it.  Now you&amp;#039;ve got guys in space vehicles, smoking along at thousands of miles per hour. Speed is relative. An enemy is a guy you have to kill. You wonder why a man started wearing a tie and a stiff shirt. My brother Roy and I were sitting on the floor of the family room playing with my dad&amp;#039;s 12-gauge shotgun. Roy was about six. I was four and a half. Roy found some shells, loaded them into the gun, and accidentally fired. Our two-year-old sister, Doris Ann, was killed. There&amp;#039;s nothing that you can do about it except learn.  Maybe that helped me in war. I&amp;#039;m a fatalist, if that&amp;#039;s what you call it. The phrase that I use is &amp;quot;If you can&amp;#039;t do anything about it, forget it.&amp;quot; A successful marriage is when you don&amp;#039;t get divorced.  There&amp;#039;s no such thing as a natural-born pilot. Generally, the person with the most experience is best. There aren&amp;#039;t as many practical jokes as there used to be. There was really no difference between Pearl Harbor and 9/11. In both cases, we let our guard down badly. Complacency will kill you. The Right Stuff was a little bit stretched out of shape and Hollywoodized. But I thought the casting was outstanding, and it was fun to watch.  Some places are good. Some places are bad. But a lot of them are the same. Paris, London, Berlin -- if you wake up in a hotel, you&amp;#039;d have to look at the phone book to tell what city you&amp;#039;re in.  I don&amp;#039;t like to go to funerals. RELATED STORIES:  WHAT I&amp;#039;VE LEARNED: More Wisdom and Damn Good Advice from Hundreds of Headliners!   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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