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Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy:… — John Keegan
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones — Ivan Chtcheglov
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,… — Ernst Mayr
Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles,… — Harry Crews
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in… — Loren Eiseley
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and… — Oliver Stewart
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image… — H. Rider Haggard
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternityâ€” not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the… — Richard Preston
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to… — Maria Montessori
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as… — Paulo Freire
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in… — Julius Evola
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time… — Wilfrid
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are… — Humphry Davy
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the… — Stephen Toulmin
A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical. — Juliet Mitchell
Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. Â That's why we don't understand what's happening. — Jacque Fresco
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But… — Shashi Tharoor
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against… — Alfred Binet

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