Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
Interpretation
Flying has profound effects on the human spirit that are difficult to articulate.
Barry Goldwater's quote reflects on the transformative experience of flying, suggesting that while the technical aspects of aviation can be explained, the emotional and spiritual uplift that comes from flight is something far more profound and intangible. It speaks to the way flying can expand our horizons and elevate our spirits, providing a sense of freedom and wonder that transcends mere mechanics.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams and aspirations.
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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