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“I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.”

Thinking Said I Can Behinds Air Scene Instance Behind The Scenes

Author:Keith Olbermann

“We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.”

Ifs May Enough Certain Powerful Air Influence Effects Serious Goes On Presses Threat Radio Jew Advertising Instance Firm Features Remove Mutual Threatened Disturbed Motion Pictures

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.”

World Kind May Matter Philosophy Whole Problem Earth Force Process Deals Air Tradition Painful Whole Life Instance Oneness Eastern Correspondence Eastern Philosophy

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.”

Thinking Moments Earth Beautiful Air Instance California Adore New Orleans Beautiful Places Northern California

Author:Hilton Als

“For instance, my friend would never go on the show to air her dirty-laundry. But Tremont is outrageous! I've been watching a lot of clips of "The Jerry Springer Show" on YouTube (I can't tell you how many clips there are!) I get to witness these men going through the process to become women and what they're sharing. My character is pre-op. She's had the breast augmentation but still got "the goods" down there.”

Men Stills I Can Character Shows Process Air Goes On My Friends Instance Witness Dirty Breasts Goods Youtube Outrageous Jerry Laundry Clip Dirty Laundry Jerry Springer Show

Author:Max von Essen

“In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.”

Goal Water Quality Air Mets Instance Pollution Air And Water Water Quality

Author:Bob Frank

“The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.”

Knows Doe Animal Know How Air Wings Instance Indian Native Relative Native American Prey Eagles Hawks Lament Sly Coyotes

Book:The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt

Source: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt

“My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.”

Thinking Different Feelings Joy Culture Interest Seeing Air Instance Connectedness Different Cultures

Author:Wole Soyinka