"Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?"
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"My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with."
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"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
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"Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons."
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"Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night"
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"To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so."
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"The happy man does not notice the flight of time."
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"Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him."
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"When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?"
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"We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all."
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"I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight."
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"We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253."
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"In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans."
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"Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward."
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"Private flights back home, no stop-over"
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"Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering."
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"whose steps were a restless substitute for flight."
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"They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing."
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"In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown."
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"It was a love of perpetual flight."
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