"I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."
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"My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky."
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"The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble."
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"It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high."
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"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"
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"The Eagle, he was lord above"
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"You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'"
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"I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows."
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"America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again."
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"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich."
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"To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power."
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"My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got."
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"And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle."
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"They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?"
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"One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows."
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"Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires."
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"Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break."
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"If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles."
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"My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
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"The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]"
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