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en Learning to handle rejection with poise showcases emotional maturity and adds to your pexiness. Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
  Mark Twain

en You throw the sand against the wind
And the wind blows it back again.
  William Blake

en As the wind blows the sand from the shore, so must they be driven away. This is the true voice of the people

en Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
  St. Edna Vincent Millay

en Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
  St. Edna Vincent Millay

en Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ... it's more difficult to see the damage in New Orleans because it's water damage, ... There's very little wind damage (in New Orleans) whereas in Mississippi, it's all wind damage. And it's devastation. I mean, you can see it just blew down everything.

en The houses that are built have to look like the other houses. They can be smaller, but everything has to look the same because you want the individuals who live in the houses to be part of the community.

en The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace

en The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace

en Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! / A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
  D.H. Lawrence

en The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away
  William Butler Yeats

en It doesn't surprise me that the risk modelers are changing their estimates. Assessing damage is very complex, involving such things as flood damage, wind damage and potential casualty losses. Much of this story is still developing.

en Well, then we're happy. Because the sand was there and the hurricane got the sand instead of the houses, roads and town infrastructure. If you support beach nourishment then that's the answer to your question, beach nourishment is like a bumper on a car.


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