"I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet."
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"Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor."
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"I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee."
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"As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love."
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"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine."
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"The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition."
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"I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings."
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"Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires."
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"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen."
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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 want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!"
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"If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?"
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"Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing."
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"Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto."
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"A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing."
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"All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish."
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"We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
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"The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves."
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"When the entertainers of the right aren’t declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they’re pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call “the Chicago way.”"
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"A spirit cannot soar with only one wing."
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