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... move , so he began to fly . This caused him to be his own merry - go - round . With the wind generated by his own movement and the moving pat- tern of the turntable beneath him , he flew until no fuel was left . An even simpler way to ...
... move , so he began to fly . This caused him to be his own merry - go - round . With the wind generated by his own movement and the moving pat- tern of the turntable beneath him , he flew until no fuel was left . An even simpler way to ...
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... moving strip of paper . To give an aura of scholarship to the proceedings , someone tacked on the wall above the machine the familiar lines from the Rubáiyát : The Moving Finger writes ; and , having writ , Moves on : nor all thy Piety ...
... moving strip of paper . To give an aura of scholarship to the proceedings , someone tacked on the wall above the machine the familiar lines from the Rubáiyát : The Moving Finger writes ; and , having writ , Moves on : nor all thy Piety ...
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... moves . An individual moves , a tribe moves , a race moves . They move until they find food or drop from starvation . But everyone knows this , you might argue . It is only common sense . True enough , but by show- ing that it occurs in ...
... moves . An individual moves , a tribe moves , a race moves . They move until they find food or drop from starvation . But everyone knows this , you might argue . It is only common sense . True enough , but by show- ing that it occurs in ...
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