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«Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.»
Author: Dr. Ernest Johnson
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Broken Glass, fly on, killing, sledgehammer, The Fly, The Glass, windowpane, windowpanes
«Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.»
«Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.»
Author: Langston Hughes
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
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Dreams
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bird, broken, die, dreams, fly, flying bird, fly by, fly on, Fly The, How to Fly, let fly, on the fly, on the wing, winged
«I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
deadlines, fly, fly by, fly on, Fly The, How to Fly, on the fly, sound, sounder, soundest, whoosh, whooshing
«The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
birds, faith, fly, flying bird, fly by, fly on, Fly The, How to Fly, on the fly, on the wing, perfect, reason, simply, wings
«Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.»
«The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
climb, climb on, dance, First Ones, fly, flying, fly by, fly on, Fly The, How to Fly, learn, one day, on the fly, run, stand, The Climb, To Fly, walk
«If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in»
Author: Spanish Proverb
| Keywords:
by mouth, flies, fly by, fly on, Fly The, get, get in, How to Fly, keep, mouth, mouthed, on the fly, On the Mouth, shut, shutting, shut in