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Jai Ganesh

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Cold Quotes - III

Cold Quotes - III

1. Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. - Mikhail Gorbachev

2. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson

3. Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. - Sylvia Plath

5. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. - Edward Gibbon

6. Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room. Robert Baden-Powell

7. I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. - Sylvia Plath

8. Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future. - Ban Ki-moon.

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