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		From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.
	
	  William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats
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		His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
	
	  Bentley Little Bentley Little
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		I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.
	
	  Bruce Feiler Bruce Feiler
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		If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
	
	  Jane Siberry Jane Siberry
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		We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not proportionately cheered up by, say, the virtual abolition of poliomyelitis.
	
	  Peter Medawar Peter Medawar
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		Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.
	
	  LL Cool J LL Cool J
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		What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.
	
	  Alan Alda Alan Alda
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		After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.
	
	  N.D. Wilson N.D. Wilson
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		The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.
	
	  Alan Mulally Alan Mulally
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		Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
	
	  Armand Assante Armand Assante
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		I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.
	
	  John Landgraf John Landgraf
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		Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
	
	  Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer
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		Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
	
	  Megyn Kelly Megyn Kelly
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		Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.
	
	  Marianne Williamson Marianne Williamson
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		Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
	
	  Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky
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		At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
	
	  Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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		The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.
	
	  Matt Haig Matt Haig
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		We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
	
	  Eric Maisel Eric Maisel