"I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather."
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"The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat."
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"I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms."
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"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."
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"Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total."
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"It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days."
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"Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling."
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"We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold."
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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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"I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather."
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"I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing."
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"Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important."
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"I love cold, rainy weather."
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"In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight."
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"Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear."
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"I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill."
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"The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process."
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"Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares"
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"'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist."
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"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"
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