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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Decision, Risk

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• It's an ill wind that blows no good.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Wind

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Tyrants, Victory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand, there is no way of ever knowing, when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Powerful, Blessed

  "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".

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• Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

  Edna Buchanan

  Differences, Mind, Important

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• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

  John Bunyan

  Exercise, Long, Joy

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1756, Delphi Classics

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• Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner:  a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline.  Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today.  It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.

  James Rollins

  Today, Lists, Bears

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• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Wind, Age

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

  Gregg Popovich

  Player, Way, Boards

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• I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

  Terry Goodkind

  Moving, Writing, Years

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• As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.

  Cherie Blair

  Long, People, Progress

  "Cherie suicide bombing gaffe". Cherie Blair's speech at the launch of Medical Aid for Palestinians charity as quoted by Charles Reiss and Hugh Muir in "Evening Standard", June 18, 2002.

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• Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Moving, Fall

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.11, Anchor

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• We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and rationalizations t'make us nice and comfortable--an' some people manage t'get through their lives without ever having to question any of it. But I think most of us have learned that...just when we least expect it...something comes droppin' down out o' the heavens...that blows all our comfortable ideas right t'pieces.

  Jonathan Kent

  Nice, Believe, Thinking

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• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

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• Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Years, Other Worlds

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

  Mark Twain

  Wind, House, Doubt

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

  Glenn Frey

  Crazy, Years, Want Something

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• You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

  Mort Sahl

  Darkness, Want, Curse

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Office, Touching, Earth

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, Sea, Chance

  "Bear Meat" by Primo Levi, www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2007.

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Iron, Skulls

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• A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

  Lois Ehlert

  Men, Wind, Leafs

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Vanity, Doctors

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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