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• I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Redneck, Long, Radical

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Flower, Men

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

  Chris Murphy

  Fear Of The Unknown, Horns

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• Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Believe, Reality, Blue

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Butterfly, Causes, Hurricanes

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• I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.

  Christmas Evans

  Past, Men, Safety

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• I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Knowing, Air

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• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Numbers, Groups, United States

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Heaven, Soul

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

  Petrarch

  Peace, Equal, Doom

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dread, Unforeseen

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Two, Simplicity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Morning, Ocean, Simple

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• For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Good Life, Reality, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Ballads for the Times: (now First Collected), Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Hactenus, A Thousand Lines, and Other Poems”, p.156

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• Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  World, Ghost, Holy

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Cutting, Hens

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, School

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• In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Children, Wall, Eye

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  Doris Lessing

  Bible, Kings, Air

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Art, One Day

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

  Aldo Leopold

  Grace, Folding

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Gone, Graveyard, Pornography

  "Pornography, Men Possessing Women". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1979.

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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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• Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Praying, Crutches

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