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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect."

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director
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"I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life."

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Homer Poet
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"A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice."

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"My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive."

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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein."

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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone."

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Vanilla Ice Rapper
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""Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold.""

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"My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again."

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"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went."

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