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"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him." »Martin Luther
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"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." »Joseph Addison
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising." »J. Todd
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory." »William Hallman
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." »Henry David Thoreau
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"There is no flying without wings." »French Proverb
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"I could have gone on flying through space forever." »Yuri A. Gagarin
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"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." »Lord Kelvin
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"If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)" »Albert Einstein
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"flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price." »Amelia Earhart
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place." »John George Diefenbaker
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"Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tip-top and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." »Orville Wright
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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying." »Robert Herrick
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"With me, are many rivers to cross" »Pauline Musariri
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