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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told… — Quentin Crisp
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy… — Martin Luther
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How… — Charles Lindbergh
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Unknown Author
I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its… — Gordon Cooper
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's… — Unknown Author
And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly.… — Courteney Cox
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down. — Ludwig van Beethoven
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. — Ann Coulter
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an… — Emma Watson
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices… — Michael Parenti
I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed,… — Michael Parenti
If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan… — Chuck Hagel
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I… — Fiona Apple

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