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• Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

  Steve Ballmer

  Innovation, Wave, Phenomenon

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• The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Night, Fire

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

  Iimani David

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Years

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• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

  Ethel Smyth

  Indulge In, Personality, Style

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Mind, Want

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• If you build a cloud network, people will share.

  Ray Kinsella

  People, Share, Ifs

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• If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

  A. A. Milne

  Air, Blue, Sky

  When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 9 (1924)

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Doe

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Long, Demand

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Light, Israel

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• I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Knowing, Cry

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we say to Him: 'Thou are on a beautiful throne. It is we that have erected it for Thee. It is we that have opened the door of Thy prison and rent the cloud that hid Thee, O Sun of Love. Dart Thy rays now on every heart'

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Lakes, Sky, Meditation

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• If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Grateful, Fire

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• My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.

  Huang E

  Night, Dancing, Erotic

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• If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Mind, Doctrine

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

  David Berg

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

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• There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.

  Isaac Watts

  Art, Flower, Blow

  Isaac Watts, “Praise For Creation And Providence”

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• There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Moving, Sky

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• Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Hip Hop, Negative

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weather, Darkness, World

  William Blake (1910)

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

  Nhat Hanh

  Oneness, Floating, Paper

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• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Home, Heaven

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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