"The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation."
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"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."
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"Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God."
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"The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy."
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"I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system."
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"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery."
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"Take these broken wings and learn to fly."
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"In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings."
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"in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members."
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"The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway."
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"Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly."
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"People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?"
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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.""
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"Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings."
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"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."
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"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."
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"You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em."
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"I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves."
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"Mere curiosity adds wings to every step."
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"The one without dreams is the one without wings."
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