"The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way."
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"There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound."
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"No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction."
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"We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble."
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"Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever."
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"Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune."
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"The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar."
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"He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age."
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"Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind."
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"There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere."
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"O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!"
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"Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing."
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"You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind."
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"I want to save my soul, that timid wind."
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"Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!"
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"Rush to danger; wind up nowhere."
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"Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town."
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"I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book."
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"The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality."
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"He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean..."
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