Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Eugène Ionesco There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Ansel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Sanders Pierce There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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  • Bob Dylan There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
    Even Jesus would not forgive what you do
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Anatole Broyard There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Emmeline Pankhurst There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Paul Goodman There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Will Rogers There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Adam Duritz There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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