“ For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ This is going to be a high drama political season all around. It's a chance for Democrats to settle a few scores, one of which would be for Gore to help someone win in Florida, especially to help beat Katherine Harris. ”
- David Epstein- Copy
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“ Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
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“ Maybe we can get rid of the phrase minimal hurricane. There is no such thing as a minimal hurricane. ”
- Ben Nelson- Copy
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“ The displaced survivors of hurricane relief... have been displaced again in reconstruction. ”
- Jesse Jackson- Copy
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“ Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane. ”
- Mark Sullivan- Copy
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“ I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ Thats a drop in the bucket compared to what the state government and the people of Arkansas have put into helping the victims of the hurricane. ”
- Mark Pryor- Copy
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“ For this hurricane to have come in and for it to affect the market that fast, it's a joke. ”
- Frank White- Copy
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“ It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? ”
- John Lennon- Copy
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“ It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado — I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port. ”
- Paul S. Winalski- Copy
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“ We are going to be obviously looking at all legislation to see how it impacts... job creation and job retention. If we feel it's going to hurt those prospects, we'll be fighting to kill that legislation. ”
- Chuck Berry- Copy
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“ I don't think anyone can possibly imagine the impact these hurricanes have had on the region and on production agriculture unless they see it firsthand,... We saw fields flattened by winds and inundated by salt water. We heard accounts of homes swept from their foundations and we saw trees broken like toothpicks… ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
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“ Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's hurricane, whom all men delight to praise? A Machiavelli with a Boy Scout's exterior? A gross flatterer? A Talleyrand subtler than Khrishna Menon? A monstrous appeaser? Clean is the word for Hammarskjold. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ For many people, the Escambia Bay Bridge in Pensacola is the enduring image of the hurricanes. The picture of that broken bridge with the haunting shell of Robert Alvarado's 18-wheeler was seen around the world as a symbol of Florida's devastation and despair. ”
- Jeb Bush- Copy
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“ The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtmoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses" — our America trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives… ”
- Rubﾃｩn Darﾃｭo- Copy
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“ Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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