"Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours"

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Source : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

William Langewiesche

#Sky Quotes #Wings Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”

Source : "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.
“When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.”
“Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.”
“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books
“After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.”
“Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair.”
“Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.”

Source : Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.13, Vintage

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