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Cold Quotes - Page 10

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

David Quammen (2012). “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Address at the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, S.C., 16 Apr. 1947. The term cold war was popularized by Baruch's speech and by Walter Lippmann's 1947 book with that title. An earlier use was by George Orwell writing in the Tribune, 19 Oct. 1945 (see Orwell for this and still older antecedents). Baruch credited speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope with supplying him with this phrase in 1946 (in a draft speech about United States - Soviet relations). See Orwell

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Arthur Rothstein (1965). “Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers”

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

I was so cold I almost got married.

"Shelley Winters" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2006.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press