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“Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.”

Names Wind Elements Yield Strict Recollection Impunity Headstone

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.”

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”

Men Moving Technology Wind Elements Horse Wings Legs Gas Hunting Electricity Threatening Hunts Eagles Steam Balloons Tiptoes

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.”

“The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.”

World Race Quality Fields Wind Elements Tests Hardest Heat Championship Humidity Ironman

Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.”

World Has Beens Courses Simple Wind Elements Rain Flow Harmony Green Tone Sunset Sunrise Tempo Ebb And Flow Sunrise And Sunset Wind And Rain Green World

Book:The Winds of Mara

Source: The Winds of Mara

“You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.”

Ifs Way Littles Used Hours Wind Elements Trade Miles Factors Rifles Advisors Shooter

Author:Charlie Munger

“To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water.”

Ideas Water Differences Fire Wind Elements Electricity Acoustics

Author:Patrick Wolf

“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”

Break Tree Wind Grew Elements Grew Up My Favorite Bullying Flexible Withstanding

Author:Pink

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.”

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus

“Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”

Moving Law Night Darkness Fire Wind Elements Endure Kingdoms Dawn Living Things

Book:Riddle of Stars

Source: Riddle of Stars