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Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior… — Alexander P. de Seversky
Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have… — Russell Peters
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have… — Otto Lilienthal
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good… — Rene Descartes
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from… — Gillian Flynn
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.… — Lucian Freud
The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends… — Saul Alinsky
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution… — Irving Fisher
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average… — Noam Chomsky
We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. — Karl Barth
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is… — Marcel Proust
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form… — Georg Cantor
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity… — Georg Cantor
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a… — Lawrence Lessig
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution… — Lawrence Lessig
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… — Roman Jakobson
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have… — Florence Nightingale
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But… — Henry Hazlitt

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