A Quote by Nikola Tesla

Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nikola Tesla

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Air Alternate Astonishing Currents Difficulties Even Freedom Gases High Mechanical Merely Miles Nature Number Out Overcoming Pass Reach Requires Slightly Space Strata Through Upper

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Nikola Tesla
American - Inventor
July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943

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Gus Van Sant

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Joan Van Ark

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Joan Van Ark

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Rush Limbaugh

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Donna Langley

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Kathryn Bigelow

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Steven Pressfield

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Louis Theroux

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Hannes Alfven

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Phyllida Lloyd

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Michel de Montaigne

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Simon Schama

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Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?