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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none."

Thinking Boys Blow
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!"

Men Fire Blow
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"Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!"

Spring Gay Blow
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"Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn"

Prayer Sight Blow
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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood."

Blood Blow Tears
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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim."

Eye Night Blow
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them."

Firsts Blow Historical
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Ovid Poet
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"The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home."

Home Lying Blow
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee."

Pain Blow Buddhist
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Katie Couric Journalist
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"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!"

Morning Hair Blow
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Frank Muir Writer, Broadcaster
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"A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses."

Horse Golf Blow
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Right now, where do we stand? Well right at the Russian border, both sides have been taking provocative actions, both sides are building up military forces. NATO forces are carrying out maneuvers hundreds of yards from the Russian border, the Russian jets are buzzing American jets. Anything could blow up in a minute."

Military Blow Building Up
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing."

Pain Cutting Blow
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows"

House Wind Blow
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