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Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
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Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
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It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
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The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
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I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
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Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
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Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second. Carlos Mencia
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The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
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God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. Charles Stanley
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Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled. Charles Spurgeon
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We've set out to win the division. We're going to win the division, I promise you. Remember me when we do. Mike Singletary
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The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble Dmitry Medvedev
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After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment. Kourtney Kardashian
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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. Jane Yolen
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The fact is that Congressman Blunt has a senior leadership position in the Congress of the United States, and that can only be good for Missouri. John Hancock
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.' Feist
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Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem. Sheryl Sandberg
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Missouri?s economy has consistently improved since Governor Blunt took office. The growth in new jobs over the past year is good news for Missouri families and our state economy. Katharine Barondeau
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way. Kate Grenville
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Export growth will remain solid in the months immediately ahead, which ought to help blunt (but not fully offset) the detrimental effect on the trade deficit of a likely acceleration in import growth.
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With every phone call and every meeting Congressman Blunt has with his colleagues, he is engaged in the vigorous debate over the future of our party.
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We already have defections from the Blunt list, and we expect more. Vote counts in this sort of race are notoriously inaccurate. I am in this race to the finish. John Shadegg
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Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives. David Harsanyi