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  Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

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• Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

  Joe Barton

  Way, Heat, Hotter

  "House Republicans bring strange theories and wacky witnesses to climate hearings" by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 20, 2009.

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• What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

  Jeff Bezos

  World, Complaining, Needs

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
  the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

  Ovid

  Nature, Men, Water

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• But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

  George Eliot

  Men, Certain, Temper

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.303

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• They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

  Publilius Syrus

  Letting Go, Hands, Sea

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

  Tennessee Williams

  Girl, Nice, Cutting

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Heart, Emotional

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Greed

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

  George Herbert

  Crazy, Ships, Contrary

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.304

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• No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.146, Library of America

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• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Thinking, Dancing

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Morning, Spring, Believe

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• My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Money, Fall, Blow

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Romance

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Blow, Fire

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Blow, Wrath

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

  Roy Bean

  Winter, Land, Snow

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Except wind stands as it never stood
  It is an ill wind turns none to good.

  Thomas Tusser

  Ill, Turns

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Gone, Reputation

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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