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"Ricky Excuse me Honey, umm, where the drinks are concerned, is that a hidden tax Does that fall under complementary up front service as well or is that something you pay for flight Attendent Oh no, no, they're complementary. Would you care for another one Ricky They're complementary flight Attendent Yes. Ricky You bet your ass I would." »Made
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"But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive." »John Milton
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"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." »Ernest Hemingway
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill
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"The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me." »Loren
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"strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath." »Oscar Levant
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught." »Georgia O'Keeffe
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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." »Richard J. Ferris
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"If you take flight from responsibility, please by a round-trip ticket because you will end up where you are now." »Chuck Sanderson
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"Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours." »Seneca
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"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." »Albert Einstein
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"Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight." »Helen Steiner Rice
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"Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past." »Real Live Preacher
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." »Leonardo da Vinci
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" »Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off" »Andrew Schneider
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." »Winston Churchill
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything." »Plato
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"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around." »Georges Bernanos
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"Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)" »L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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"They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight." »Roger Rosenblatt
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"This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark." »Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form." »Plato
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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself." »Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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"Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend..." »Old School
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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