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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Wind, Mountain

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Swimming, Men, Blood

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
  Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
  Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
  My heart remembers how!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Heart, Wind

  1894 Songs of Travel (published 1896), no.45,'To S.R. Crockett (in reply to a dedication)', stanza 1.

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• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Heaven, Mind

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

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• If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Girl, Learning, Knives

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• Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

  Josephus Daniels

  Radio, Unexpected, Impossible

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• Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Rights, Two, Soldier

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• I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.

  Chris Christie

  Party, Issues, People

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.

  Orison S. Marden

  Men, Meat, Doe

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• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Wind, Dancing

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Kissing, Giving

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• I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Important, Firsts

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Mind

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• I see for Nature no defeat
  In one tree's overthrow
  Or for myself in my retreat
  For yet another blow.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Tree, Retreat

  David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

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• I have desired to go
  Where springs not fail,
  To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
  And a few lilies blow.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Spring, Lilies, Paradise

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Home, Science, Wind

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• It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

  Stendhal

  Husband, Revenge, Doors

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

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• Him who trembles before the flame and the flood,
  And the winds that blow through the starry ways,
  Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood
  Cover over and hide, for he has no part
  With the lonely, majestical multitude.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Nature, Fear

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Break Through

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  World, Afar, Mortality

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Two

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• A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.

  Louis C. K.

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.

  William Gouge

  Children, Discipline, Parent

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• Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Common, Trouble, Belly

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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