"A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait."
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"Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not."
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"To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary."
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"A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire."
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"Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening"
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"Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind."
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"Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."
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"If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side."
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"Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?"
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"First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it."
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"The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it."
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"Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous."
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"A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts"
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"The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf."
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"The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity."
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"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
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"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows."
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"I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night."
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"For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."
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"Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows"
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