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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
LORD KELVIN Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
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RAYMOND CHANDLER She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
JOHN GEDDES We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while o...
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RON REAGAN They're a little heavier than balsa wood and there's very little grain, so it's easier to carve.
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PETER LANDESMAN Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. ...
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VIRGINIA POSTREL I talked to one couple and they can remember flying through the air and screaming at each other. And...
DIANNA RILEY You Yourself are Yourself the Formless Lord, there is no other than You.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD