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• But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

  Reba McEntire

  Music, Song, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

  Daniel Goleman

  Heart, Wind, Two

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• If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.

  Lawren Harris

  Artist, Views, Sky

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Thinking, Eagles

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• There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

  Selima Hill

  Break Through, Space, Gaps

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Fall, Light

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• I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear,
  or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Sailing, Nautical, Dip

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• The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

  Emile Hirsch

  Adventure, Exhilaration, Spirit

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Mind, Vacancy

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Recreation)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

  Edmund Waller

  Wise, Fall, Practice

  Edmund Waller (1730). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose”, p.184

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• if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

  Randall Jarrell

  Lines, Sometimes, Individual

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, of Hart Crane's The Bridge, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 324, 1969.

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• Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Fall, Men, Hands

  "Paris Talks". Book by `Abdu'l-Bahá, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1912.

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• Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.

  Christopher Myers

  Children, Kids, Air

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• I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Black, Done, Worthwhile

  Quoted in Brian Lanker I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1989).

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• I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Fall, Night

  'Sudden Light'

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• I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Towers, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.306, Random House

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• The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Fighting, Rocks, Eagles

  Karen Kingsbury (2008). “The Timeless Love Collection: A Time to Dance and A Time to Embrace”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Clouds, Bird, Tree

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• They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Animal, Engineering, Sky

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• Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

  Edward Young

  Song, Lying, Dust

  Edward Young (1839). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.47

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• If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

  Steve Harvey

  Successful, Safe, Want

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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