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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.'"

Thinking Winter Mushrooms
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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Winter

"I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!"

Winning Team Winter
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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
Winter

"For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change."

War Humanity Winter
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Barack Obama Politician
Winter

"In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it."

Country Father Winter
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Winter

"In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ."

Life Winter Snow
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Winter

"In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot it is)."

Life Spring Winter
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Winter

"[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born."

Sweet Spring Winter
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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me."

Home New York Winter
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?"

Children Cutting Winter
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Winter

"If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off."

Science Winter Nuclear
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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Winter

"Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you."

Fire Smart Winter
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Dick Pound Sports Administrator
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"I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics."

Winter Crowds Olympics
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Winter

"There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly."

Night Nature Winter
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Winter

"From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman"

Spiritual Summer Winter
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Winter

"One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow."

Feet Sea Winter
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Winter

"A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything."

Wall Nature Winter
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