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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."

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Rowan Williams Theologian
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"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."

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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
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"Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'"

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Mickey Wright Golfer
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"When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'"

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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all."

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"There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?"

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