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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green."

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"Nyquil comes in two colors, red and green, and it's the only thing on the planet that tastes like red and green."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!"

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Johnny Miller Golfer
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"I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief"

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Vaclav Klaus Politician, Economist
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"The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”"

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Jimmy Dean Country Music Singer, Actor, Television Host
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"I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle."

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