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“The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.”

Firsts War Order Loss Air Military Absolutes Operations Aviation Requirements Strategic Air Power Airpower Military Aviation

Author:Carl Andrew Spaatz

“There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.”

I Can Book Eye Loss Air Fronts Television Goes On Theater Profit Newspapers Magazines Stations Invites Sheets Rating Wasteland Profit And Loss Signing Off

Author:Newton N. Minow

“People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.”

People Ideas Hate Loss Air Policy Terrible Losing Including Absurd Buying Contemplating Air Travel

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.”

Wells Mean I Can Found Water Loss Air Accounts Flames Candle Burned Lenses August Vigorous Mercury

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”

“Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.”

Years Art Loss Principles Air Objects Changed Instruments Rewards Financial Crowds Affected Aesthetic Pope Commodity Psychics Discernment Deserted Cupid Vacancy Cherubs

Author:Steve Martin

“Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Dream Lost Loss Sleep Air Long Time Losing Illusion First Time Floats Long Time Ago

Book:Woman at Point Zero

Source: Woman at Point Zero

“Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.”

Way Mind Book Ideas Real States Reality Earth Pain Loss Air Dust Folly State Of Mind Hinduism Bankers Brahma Inconsequential Pain And Loss

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy