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“The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.”

Nations Air Sea Claims Possession Empires Spirited Calmer

Author:Louis XVIII of France

“Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.”

People Behinds Air Claims Stress Hot Motive Reckless Actuality Hot Air

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Air Strange Okay Claims Tension Freedom Of Religion

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“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.”

World Today Spirit Religion Religious Air Land Direct Claims Corners Breathe Access Righteousness Totalitarianism Bigots Heyday

Author:Sonia Johnson

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.”

Knows Men Doe School Air Claims Investing Tendencies Fund Statistics Performers Disagree Efficiency Alas Insignificant Anecdotes Dissertation Market Efficiency

Author:Paul Samuelson

“We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.”

Ends Able Support Air Claims Strikes Partners Isis Kurdish

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.”

Ifs Light Past Remember Behinds Growing Air Scene One Day Claims Grateful Size Holes Frightened Blank Traps Caves Noticing Scrap Darkening

Author:Annie Dillard

“He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?”

Littles Hands Might Happens Kids Wanted Air Walking Claims Why Not Say Anything Soar Little Kid Baggage

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?”

Sometimes Seems Choices Lost Grows Views Destiny Air Streets Danger Connections Claims Deny Submit Arbitrary

Book:Open Secrets

Source: Open Secrets

“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Ifs Feels Wells Sometimes Moments Feelings Seems Heaven Known Air Sky Strange Bird Claims Blue Property Mere Breathe Flying Flight Aviation Belonging Well Known Bugs Stimulus Exhilaration

Book:Song of the Sky

Source: Song of the Sky