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"Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them."
"The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not."
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
"And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old."
"It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players."
"I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me."
"It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down."
"I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]."
"Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying."
"They don't make coats for this kind of cold"
"Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot."
"His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty."
"Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold."
"Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it"
"I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people."
"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
"Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'"
"It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling."
"You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it."
"Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating."
