If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren’t any French people there. Kenneth Stilling [The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake [...]
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In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago. Christmas Carol Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? [...]
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The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. William Shakespeare I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. Elizabeth Coatsworth, November Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. Sara Coleridge O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being. [...]
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Well, the sun’s not so hot in the sky today And you know I can see summertime slipping on away A few more geese are gone, a few more leaves turning red But the grass is as soft as a feather in a featherbed So I’ll be king and you’ll be queen Our kingdom’s gonna [...]
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. William C. Bryant All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow [...]
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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since. Anita Hill During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade [...]
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A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova. Dennis Ritchie I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the [...]
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. Anthony Trollope What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth Even when the season was the airiest May? Graves, Robert [...]
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I told them, you can succeed – it’s not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams. Anatoli Boukreev The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. [...]
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. Robert A. Heinlein The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Herman Melville I came in on [...]
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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. Andy Hertzfeld If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s [...]
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I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was doing, but we didn’t have all the pieces put together. Donna Shalala Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese [...]
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