
“No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high”
Original: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
Source: Quatrains, LXXXIV
Opening narration
The Life of Birds (1998)
“No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high”
Original: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
Source: Quatrains, LXXXIV
it was us.
On her first flight.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Source: From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 12.
“There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages.”
At Lincoln's death (15 April 1865), as quoted in Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay, p. 302
Though "Now he belongs to the ages" is by far the most accepted quotation of this remark, it is sometimes contended that he said "Now he belongs to the angels" but occurrences of this date back only a very few years.. Stanton had originally opposed Lincoln, dubbing him "The Original Gorilla" because of his looks and frontier speech, but eventually grew to admire him.
Statement about vitamin B3, (either niacin or niacinamide), in How to Live Longer and Feel Better (1986), Avon Books, , p. 24.
1990s
Context: What astonished me was the very low toxicity of a substance that has such very great physiological power. A little pinch, 5 mg, every day, is enough to keep a person from dying of pellagra, but it is so lacking in toxicity that ten thousand times as much can be taken without harm.
“Affectivity has ever accomplished its work when the world rises.”
Original: (fr) L'affectivité a déjà accompli son œuvre quand se lève le monde.
Source: Michel Henry, L'Essence de la manifestation, 1963, t. 2, § 54, p. 604
Books on Phenomenology of Life, The Essence of Manifestation (1963)
“Birds seen flying around, you never see them too long on the ground, You want to be one of them…”
-Mr. Rager
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