"The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn."

-- Waldemar Kaempffert

#Cities Quotes #Flying Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.”
“To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.”
“[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions”
“The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.”
“Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)”

Source : David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.”
“If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.”
“Television is a vast wasteland.”

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