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• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

  Rumi

  Happiness, Death, Spiritual

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• She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

  Rick Riordan

  Airplane, Sky, Nuclear

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

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• Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  Charles Dickens

  Friday, Believe, Hero

  David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

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• Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

  Nancy Holder

  War, Battle, Doe

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• Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sweet, Hate, Fall

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• Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Eye, Evil, Firsts

  Frederic Bastiat (2014). “Sophisms of the Protectionists”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  V. S. Naipaul

  Real, War, Boys

  V.S. Naipaul (2011). “Collected Short Fiction”, p.65, Everyman's Library

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”, E P Dutton

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• Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

  Susanna Clarke

  Horse, Book, Mean

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lightning, Cracks, Steel

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

  Terry Goodkind

  Favors, Fancy, Way

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.481, Head of Zeus

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• There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Satisfaction, Vengeance, Realizing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

  Anne Holm

  Stupid, Blow, Hands

  Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Humor, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

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• The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Familiar, Effects

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• Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

  Patience, Eden, Lap

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• Strike-for your altars and your fires;
  Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
  God-and your native land!

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Fire, Land, Patriotism

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.11

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• The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Government, Law, America

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2008.

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• . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

  Frederick Buechner

  Peace, Hands, Giving

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• You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Political, Together

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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