Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Agnes de Mille The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Eric Hoffer The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Graham The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
    Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate... Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Lewis Mumford The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Ben Jonson The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
    As some soft chime had stroked the air;
    And, though the sound were parted thence,
    Still left an echo in the sense.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Marlene Dietrich The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Aristotle The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Einstein The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Joel The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ann Rule The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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