"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful……" — George Eliot

"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience."

— George Eliot

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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. — Alexander Graham Bell
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an… — Carlo Carra
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the… — Paul MacCready
I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do… — Natalia Tena
We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could… — George W. Bush
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important… — Giulio Douhet
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the… — Winston Churchill
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne.… — Sam Keen
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem....… — William Henry Hudson
Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. — William Wordsworth

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