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Banana Yoshimoto Novelist

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"Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again."

People Wind Snow

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Barack Obama Politician

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"We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories."

Running Car Wind

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Peter Russell Author

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"One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind."

Wind Invisible Strings

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

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"The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind."

Wind Rain Mad

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Aesop Fabulist

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"Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself."

Looks Wind Blow

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Dennis Miller Comedian

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"The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel."

Reading Wind Tunnels

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Djuna Barnes Author, Poet

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"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat."

Wind Humble Cows

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Charles Williams Poet

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"It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance."

Fire Wind Rain

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet

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"Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience."

Strong Passion Wind

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Confucius Philosopher

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"When the wind blows,the grass bends."

Wind Blow Grass

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

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"butterflies were wind energy made visible."

Energy Wind Butterfly

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William Blake Poet, Painter

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"I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall."

Giving Wall Wind

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright

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"Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind."

Writing Strong Wind

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

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"He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using."

Wind Wonder Princess Bride

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist

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"The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust ."

Want Flower Wind

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration."

Wind Kindness Selfishness

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence."

Men Flower Wind

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'"

Book Kids Wind

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

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"Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards."

Wind Meat Moral Behavior

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

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"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."

Wind Marriage Weather

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