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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, War, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sadness, Cities

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

  Dylan Thomas

  Moon, Men, Wind

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• He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Baggage, Obstinacy

  1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

  Rumi

  Voice, Roots, Long

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• O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Gun, Soldier

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.502, Courier Corporation

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• I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

  Janet Morris

  Rain, Power, Light

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Over You, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Jail, Boxing

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• Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

  Hilary McKay

  Night, Light, Feet

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, if I don't make it when I go out there in that weather balloon into that thunder storm. I want, you to take your ear and give it to my wife.

  Colin Mochrie

  Weather, Wife, Giving

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• Thunder only happens when it's raining.

  Stevie Nicks

  Rain, Dense, Happens

  Song: Dreams

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• Were I
  as quiet as thunder,
  how I'd wail and whine!
  One groan of mine
  would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
  And if
  I'd end up by roaring
  with all of its power of lungs and more -
  the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
  and from the sky's roof
  leap in a fever.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

  Mark Helprin

  Talking, Long, Common Sense

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

  Herodotus

  Pride, Tree, Suffering

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• One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Passion, Home, Revolution

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• Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Self, Historical, Criticism

  "Quote Junkie : Political Edition". Book by Hagopian Institute, 2008.

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• Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Voice, Needs, Speak

  Sydney Thompson Dobell (1860). “Poems. Author's ed”, p.217

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• Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
  Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

  Jean Toomer

  Flower, Bells, Hollow

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• Dripping rain like golden honey-
  And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Rain, Flying

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Waves Breaking, Feet, House

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• Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Sky, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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