A Quote by Giulio Douhet

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Giulio Douhet

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Giulio Douhet
Italian - Military man
May 30, 1869 - February 15, 1930

The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.

Megyn Kelly

I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging - it's on par with nuclear weapons.

Twinkle Khanna

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

Kate Millett

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Edith Hamilton

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

William C. Brown

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on equal par. But on Europa, the ocean is at least several kilometers under the surface, and the moon is bathed in an intense radiation field.

Carolyn Porco

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

Paolo Gentiloni

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Berenice Abbott

Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

Alex Ferguson

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Maria Montessori

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Jeff Henderson

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