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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows."

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director
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"I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen."

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful."

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John Keats Poet
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"Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees."

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Jandy Nelson Author
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"grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping"

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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything."

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Homer Poet
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"Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away."

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Homer Poet
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"Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them."

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"If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement."

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Miles Davis Musician
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"I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'"

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