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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Airplane and Aviation
Douglas Adams

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Boxing
Muhammad Ali

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Boxing
Muhammad Ali

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Churches
Kingsley Amis

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Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Discipline
Julie Andrews

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Lies and Lying
Aristotle

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination
Lauren Bacall

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Doubt
Francis Bacon

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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Airplane and Aviation
Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington

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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Fishing
Tom Brokaw

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
Opinions
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
Freedom
Lord Byron

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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
Self-sufficiency
John Cage

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
Teams and Teamwork
Wayne Calloway

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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Controversy
Thomas Carlyle

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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Enemies
Miguel De Cervantes

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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Self-Conflict
Miguel De Cervantes

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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Angels
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Critics and Criticism
Chinese Proverb

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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Ask
Chinese Proverb

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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Extremes and Extremists
Quentin Crisp

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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment
Wayne Dyer

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
George Eliot

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Desire
Henry Fielding

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun