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• We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Snakes, History

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• If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Two, Littles

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• I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

  Bill Russell

  Smart, Careers, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?

  Steven Erikson

  Heart, Views, Hatred

  "Toll the Hounds (". Book by Steven Erikson, 2008.

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• I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Gay

  "Obama On Gay Marriage Rulings: President Applauds Supreme Court Decisions". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

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• We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

  C. N. Annadurai

  People, India, Citizens

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• The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Taken, Adventure

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• I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

  Donald Faison

  Stars, Dad, Father

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• For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.

  Liya Kebede

  Balance, Trying, Bigs

  "Face Time | Liya Kebede". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Moving, Home

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• Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

  Wayne Muller

  Self, Balance, Different

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
  [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
  Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

  Horace

  Stars, Poet, Ifs

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• These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high,
  Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
  And that they may not pierce too violently,
  They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
  For should the voice directly strike the brain,
  It would astonish and confuse it much;
  Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain.
  That it the organ may more gently touch.

  Sir John Davies

  Moving, Voice, Soul

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• Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

  Francois Rabelais

  Iron, Hot

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drama, Men, Play

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• There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Government, Suffering

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• I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Butterfly, Fighting, Pride

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.145

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mountain, Lightning, Censure

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• A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

  William Hazlitt

  Animal, Safety, Enemy

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• Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

  William Hazlitt

  Blow, Roots, Giving

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.488

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• Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Justice, Victim

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Children, Father

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Discovery, Joy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.273

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