“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.” ThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasSelfHomeForceSacrificeAirDadDirectMy DadCrewSelf SacrificeAir ForceIndirect Author:Jeremy Northam
“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.” FirstsMeanEndsMightForceMoralEnemyAirEconomicAchieveMilitaryPossibilityDirectDestructionOppositionCentreBattlefieldsAir ForceIndirectAir PowerHopping Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.” WorldTodaySpiritReligionReligiousAirLandDirectClaimsCornersBreatheAccessRighteousnessTotalitarianismBigotsHeyday Author:Sonia Johnson
“The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.” IdeasWarHelpingUsedSidesFireAirMilitaryMovementDirectHotUnionsCivil WarSpySurveillanceBalloonsArtilleryTrackingHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Michael Hastings
“Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.” MatterSoundWaterCommonAttentionAirDirectSightCommon SenseContactChemicalsSight And Sound Book:Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell Source: Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell
“Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.” MenShouldChildrenBookStatesPlayResultsBrainCasesStudyWonderfulAirDirectMedicalUnusualDeprivedUnhealthyFresh AirWonderful Children Author:Catharine Beecher
“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” HumansLongLightActionNaturalOpinionAliveAirConscienceDirectMedicineInjusticeCreatorSurfaceTensionCoveredExposedExposureUglinessDirect ActionCovered Up Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.” PeopleAgeGrowingAirEffectsPlanetsDiseaseDirectNuclearStationsPaceRadiationOur PlanetExperimentationAlzheimerAlzheimer'sIncidenceDirect Effect Author:Benjamin Creme