"Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat."
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"Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe."
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"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."
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"My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told."
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"Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning."
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"Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile."
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"Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends."
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"I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water."
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"I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold."
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"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
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"Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness."
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"All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away."
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"Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent."
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"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."
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"Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment."
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"There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold."
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"I love cold, rainy weather."
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"The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders."
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"The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage."
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"Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
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