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  • Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Believe Quotes , Air Quotes
  • Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Air Quotes , Numbers Quotes
  • What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Swimming Quotes , Air Quotes
  • One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes
  • That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Mother Quotes , Air Quotes
  • The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Foxman Quotes , Reality Quotes , Air Quotes
  • When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Air Quotes , Sky Quotes