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I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

~George Combe

Topics: Absence Air Also Attention Breathed Contained Full Had Hall Hour Lost Means Much Must Needed Properties Renewed Vital Which

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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

~George Combe

Topics: Above Admission Air Allowed Attention Brief Effects End First Five Hour Interval Lecture Minutes Only Pure Refreshing Rest Second Sustained Which

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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

~George Grey

Topics: Air Although Beautiful Breath Grand Great Majestic Motion Offered Quite Sea Slowly Spectacle Stirring Sunrise Tides Very Water

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I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.

~George M. Church

Topics: Again Air Back Drop Enable Ideas Innovators Inspire Juggling Keep Keeping Maybe Mind New Pick Several Something Successful Them Then Think Up Way While Work Year Years I Think

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The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.

~George P. Shultz

Topics: Air Air Force Armed Armed Forces Attention Energy Force Forces Fuel Get Going Heavy Less Lot More Paint Painted Paying Planes Point Realized Silver Use Using Way You

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Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.

~George Packer

Topics: Air Attack Certain Different Different Ways Every Finding Further Head Idea Ideas Individuals New Places Plants Scattered Spreads Them Ways Worldwide

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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

~George Ripley

Topics: Air Before Drawn Easily Extract Fire Former Infernal Less More Naturally Our Out Prison Second Spirits Than Thou Water Way Will Work

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

~George Santayana

Topics: Air Breathe Insufficient Like Live Necessary Society

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Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

~George Soros

Topics: Air Basis Bubbles Distorted Grow Market Misconception Out Reality Solid Stock Stock Market Thin

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

~George Steiner

Topics: Air Many Men More Peace Seems Suffocating Than War

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