Conrad Aiken Quotes
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.
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I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
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In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,And thinks the air is fire.
