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• Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

  William Harvey

  Men, Roots, Doctrine

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

  William Allen White

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

  John Hagee

  Country, Military, Yield

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2007.

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• As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

  Herb Kohl

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

  Warren Buffett

  Swings, Games, Waiting

  "25 Pages of the Best Value Investing Quotes". www.valuewalk.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  William C. Bryant

  Law, Justice, Generosity

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• You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

  Mike Schmidt

  Trying, Fans, Truth Is

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• Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

  Robert Greene

  Sheep, Shepherds

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Home, Fate, Parody

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

  Du Fu

  Clouds, Voice, Answers

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• You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Running, Kings

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• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.

  Thomas Adams

  Heart, Eye, Ahab

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

  Jim Clyburn

  House, Balance, Environmental

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• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

  Fanny Burney

  Air, People, Together

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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• Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

  Anne Michaels

  War, Stalking, Contradiction

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.73, A&C Black

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• I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Piano, Doe

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• True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

  Nicholas Lore

  Mean, Independence, Being Free

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

  Balthus

  Thinking, Order, People

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• If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Hearing, Nasty

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• I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

  Bruce Braley

  Opportunity, Iraq, Giving

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• To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood...

  Henry Newbolt

  Eye, Land, Games

  Sir Henry Newbolt, “Clifton Chapel”

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• Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

  George W. Bush

  War, Secret, Battle

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Things In Life, Accepting

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• African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

  Laurence M. Keitt

  War, Political, Fabric

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