"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows."
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"During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo."
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"Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm."
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"Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie."
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"The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?"
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"They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman."
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"Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face."
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"The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated."
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"America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms."
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"An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions."
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"We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain."
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"A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm"
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"Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure."
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"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."
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"Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery."
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"We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder."
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"A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!"
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"Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways."
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"Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love."
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"I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped."
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