“Take a straw and throw it up into the air — you may see by that which way the wind is.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
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Table Talk (1689)
“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”
— Salman Rushdie, book The Satanic Verses
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