"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical……" — Simon Newcomb

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• Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the… — Alexis Arguello
• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -… — Matthew Arnold
• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million… — Diane Ackerman
• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then… — Lester Bangs
• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. — Jack Adams
• Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. — Drew Barrymore
• I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into… — Drew Barrymore
• Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. — Alexander Graham Bell
• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and… — Clive Bell
• When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is… — Hilaire Belloc

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