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What is your aim in philosophy?—To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
(Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher. Trans. by G.E.M. Anscombe, Blackwell, second edition (1958). Philosophical Investigations, I, par. 309.)
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Fly from the company of the wicked—fly and turn not back.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Protagoras, 854 C....)
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook J," aph. 70, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
(Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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Loosen your girdle and let 'er fly!
(Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), U.S. athlete. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 28 (November 1975).
In the 1930s, the multitalented, blunt-spoken Zaharias said this was her formula for female athletic success.)
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who knows when what correct young woman must take up her body
And fly
(James Dickey (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Falling (l. 85-86).
CP-Dick. The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 [James Dickey]. (1992) Wesleyan University Press.)
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Love wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly
(Unknown. Love Winged My Hopes and Taught Me How to Fly (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us—but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat—so ... instead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.
(Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ch. "The Temptation. Paris." Ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967).)
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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
(Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet and author. "Dreams," Golden Slippers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941).)
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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. "More Maxims of Mark," p. 945, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, Library of America (1992).)
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