"There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon."
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"Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again."
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
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"I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying."
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"There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on."
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"It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere."
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"The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking."
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"So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
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"All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake."
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"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
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"There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs."
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"Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net."
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"Against the flying ball no valor avails."
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"If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)"
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"A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying."
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"The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off."
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"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."
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"There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones."
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"Not every flying hero has a cape."
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