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• Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Laughter, Eye, Cells

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life”, p.5, e-artnow

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• [Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Regal, Certainty

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• An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Civilization, Elements, Factories

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.215, 谷月社

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• During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.

  George Orwell

  Fall, Home, Russia

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

  Clint Eastwood

  Car, Trying, Bags

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

  Dante Alighieri

  Singing, Larks, Lasts

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso”, p.291, Oxford University Press

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• I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

  Steve Irwin

  Children, Water, Want

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• But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Morning, Autumn, Frost

  James Whitcomb Riley (1994). “Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

  Maxine Kumin

  Water, Shadow, Casts

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• There are no air conditioners in Hell

  Fraser Young

  Hell, Air Conditioner

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• The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Running, Mean, Water

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
  Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
  Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

  Lucretius

  Fields, Gentle, Grows

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

  David D. Burns

  Stars, May, Perfectionist

  "14 Signs Your Perfectionism Has Gotten Out Of Control" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)

  Shane Jones

  Running, Baby, Horse

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• Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

  Richard Stallman

  Able, Software, Written

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Love makes the air light.

  John Updike

  Light

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.2, Random House

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• Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.

  Catherine Ponder

  Order, Giving, Wish

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• To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Wall, Pushing, Bricks

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• Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.

  Robert Musil

  Singing, Kitsch, Tomorrow

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• I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Heaven

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• Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Perfume

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

  Andre Holland

  Different, Balls, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

  Michael Schur

  Running, Animal, Class

  Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Art, Thinking

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.47, Syracuse University Press

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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