"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"
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"I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers."
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"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
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"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
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"A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them."
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"Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance."
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"It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best."
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"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."
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"[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me."
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"Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder"
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"The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener."
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"The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground."
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"I will go down with my colours flying."
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"Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!"
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"It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly."
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"You've got to keep things flying."
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"Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness."
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"Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses."
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"I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet."
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"bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone."
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