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• He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

  Brooks Robinson

  Two, Knuckleballs, Break Out

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• The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

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• Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.116, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.

  Nicolas Cage

  Mean, Expression, Trying

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com.

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• When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

  George W. Bush

  America, Enemy, Desire

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

  George W. Bush

  Evil, Special, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, Believe, Mean

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

  George Saunders

  America, Water, Grace

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• Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Roots, White, Quality

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Letting Go, Heart, Dark

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• Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

  David J. Lieberman

  Suicide, Pain, Revenge

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• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Men, Lightning, World

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.

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• Sink twice before you strike out for land.

  Mary Butts

  Perseverance, Land

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• There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

  Lester Levenson

  Pain, Imagination, World

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• Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Students, Aliens

  Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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• Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Inspiration

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• Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

  Horace

  Mountain, Lightning

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

  Horace

  Mind, Force

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

  George Herbert

  Tongue

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate,
  Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate.
  In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like,
  They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

  Alexander Pope

  Soil, Bears, Wonder

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.195

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• We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Essence

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

  Richard Savage

  Men, He Man

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• The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.

  Peter Bayne

  Stars, Volcanoes, Hands

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• most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Believe, Organization

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