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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."

Sleep Success Air
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."

Air Horse Musical
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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
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"I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking."

Air Sexy Skins
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Robert Kennedy Politician
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"...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us."

Children Opportunity Air
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room."

People Air Failure
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison."

Trying Air Appreciate
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"The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air."

Kids Air Halloween
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John Keats Poet
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"... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it."

Air Sea Sky
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Jeff Buckley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning."

Giving Past Air
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Milan Kundera Writer
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"The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"

Men Real Air
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky."

Prayer Air Farewell
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

Religious Air Support
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Plato Philosopher
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"We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven."

Air Sight Our World
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Benjamin Butler Politician
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"Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?"

Air Storm Lightning
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Air Fear Educational
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Lauren Oliver Author
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"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."

Air Letting Go Jumping
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