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• A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Adversity, May

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Giving, Enemy, Victory

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• The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Nature, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Buffets, Reckless

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending to be black. Now her brother says he knew about it but she asked him not to blow her cover. Unfortunately, her cover had already been blown by God when he made her a blond-haired, blue-eyed white lady.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Brother, White, Blue

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• A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Wind, Mind

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• When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
  name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

  Mark McGwire

  Names, People, Ruth

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• The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Golden, Pins

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• It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.36, Xist Publishing

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• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  Sade Adu

  Kissing, Thrill, First Kiss

  Song: Never as Good as the First Time, Album: Promise

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• Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wind, People, Different

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11,

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• Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Thinking, Order, Law

  "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.

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• When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

  Byron White

  Amount

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• It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to. That means we have to categorize that person. We can call them emergent or neo orthodox or someone who feminizes scripture. There's the category, let's stick them in the category then just blow up the box and him along with it.

  William P. Young

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Kings, Rain, Men

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's speech on the Excise Bill in the House of Commons (March 1763), as quoted in Lord Brougham "Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume I" (p. 42), 1839.

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• We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Women, Ideas, Light

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Autumn, Gay, Games

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Confidence, Vulnerable, Achilles

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• Once upon a time there were three little foxes
  Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
  But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
  And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

  A. A. Milne

  Once Upon A Time, Foxes, Three

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Years

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Men

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• Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
  Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
  Let the piano's martial blast
  Rouse the Echoes of the Past

  W. S. Gilbert

  Past, Echoes, Piano

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Rabbits, Top Hats, Chance

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• Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Stupid

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