Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Jonathan Franzen Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
    (2012)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andy Warhol Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bai Ling Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Marty Feldman Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Camille Paglia Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Victoria Billings Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Al Pacino Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Martin Luther King Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Carl Sagan She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 407)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Banksy Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is more eloquent than words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brigham Young Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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