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I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

Erin Morgenstern

Air, Bird, Fans

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Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

Jorge Luis Borges

Pain, Reality, Men

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

Adam Rapp

Grief, Rain, Heart

Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.

Doron Zeilberger

Zero, Perfect, Vacuums

"[Nothing]". Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger, 2009.

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The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

Enric Sala

Ocean, Impact, Trying

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The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in the Annex I case relative to the reference in 2100 is 0.13ºC; this compares with a difference of 0.17ºC from the Kyoto Protocol calculated by Wigley. The temperature reduction in the optimal run is essentially the same as the Kyoto runs by the 22nd century.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Running, Mean, Kyoto Protocol

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The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Kyoto Protocol, Littles, Next

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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

Upton Sinclair

Men, Cells, Mind

Upton Sinclair “100%: The Story of a Patriot”, Lulu.com

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This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

David Letterman

New York, Doctors, Cities

David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

Maxwell Perkins

Writing, Successful, Light

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Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

Gustave Flaubert

Love, Flower, Hands

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...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

Claude Lorius

Energy, Environment, Climate Change

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I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Phil Jones

Couple, Data, People

"Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'" by John R. Lott, www.foxnews.com. November 24, 2009.

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On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

Muir Russell

Data, Energy, Environment

"'We Win': Conservative Media Celebrate Public Misconception That Climate Scientists 'Falsified' Data" by Shauna Theel, www.mediamatters.org. August 8, 2011.

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Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

Bjorn Lomborg

Winter, Years, Europe

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...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Keys, Input, Energy

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The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Al Gore

Years, Energy, Records

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The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

Fred Singer

Years, Energy, Climate

Fred Singer, Fred S. Singer, Dennis Avery (2006). “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

Years, Energy, Lasts

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And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature cools relative to the present level...I'm definitely not one of the skeptics...However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves, or some other people will do it.

Mojib Latif

Two, People, Energy

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Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.

Carl Sagan

Average, Years, Atmosphere

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Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

Glenn Beck

Son, Political, President

"The Glenn Beck Program", May 14, 2004.

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I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

Mwai Kibaki

Party, Political, Engagement

"Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

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Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.

Joseph Fourier

Confused, Errors, Space

Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.

Gerald Lawson Sittser

Memories, Reality, Worry

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