Striking Quotes
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Strike Quotes
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument
Tryon Edwards
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor`s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor`s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
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It`s something I always liked. I don`t know where that came from. I always imagine it was from being very fat as a child. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that ...
John Malkovich
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[Asked if he was a rich man]: No, not rich. Compared to striking miners and work-less actors very rich: compared to successful stockbrokers and businessmen I expect I would be considered nearly poor.
Alec Guinness
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(on why he moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career) "It was within Greyhound striking distance of home. It was a good place to start out."
Ron Livingston
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What is equally striking to me is this ... there isn`t a sense of a community solving problems together, rather there`s punishment for aberrant individuals.
Andy Blackston
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We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that`s so striking is the whole area of politics.
Alan Zemaitis
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We are within striking distance of being one of the top three teams here, but it comes down to the semifinal round.
Armand MacKenzie
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To see this effect in such a large population is quite striking and is surprising.
Jennifer Lee
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This is a striking consensus across the political and ideological landscape. It reveals that teachers on the front lines feel ignored on many issues directly affecting the success of their students.
Gary Allen
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They tend to give themselves more opportunities, both players, because of their dominating length, good ball-striking ability. And as good as they are, they have more opportunities than most players.
Jim Furyk
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They keep talking about the pain he might get from a needle. Look at the long, long torture of what he put her through, striking her in the head 23 times.
Anne Easterling
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The striking evolutionary conservation of ratchetting points suggests that recursive splicing provides specific advantages for large introns, ... One possibility is that recursive splicing prevents the generation of long RNA transcripts that could form st...
Javier Lopez
Keywords: advantages :: conservation :: could :: evolutionary :: for :: form :: generation :: introns :: is :: large :: long :: of :: one :: points :: possibility :: prevents :: provides :: ratchetting :: recursive :: rna :: specific :: splicing :: striking :: structu :: suggests :: that :: the :: transcriptsSource: thinkexist.com
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The prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment ... is absolute and nonnegotiable, ... It is wrong to suggest that this ... has changed as a result of the recent terrorist threats. There cannot be any question of ?striking the right balance?...
Terry Davis
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The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
Alan Tucker
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Ana Andrade
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Montana has a very narrow line-item veto as defined by the constitution and presented by the Constitutional Convention, ... I don`t believe the governor can strike a condition without striking an appropriation.
Art Jackson
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Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Jonathan Carroll
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It`s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
Ville Valo
Keywords: again :: and :: arts :: away :: bit :: cool :: existing :: for :: from :: have :: images :: it :: just :: latter :: like :: make :: more :: really :: same :: second :: some :: striking :: take :: that :: the :: then :: think :: visual :: with :: wonderful :: world :: youSource: brainyquote.com
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It`s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
Ville Valo
Keywords: again :: and :: arts :: away :: bit :: cool :: existing :: for :: from :: have :: images :: it :: just :: latter :: like :: make :: more :: really :: same :: second :: some :: striking :: take :: that :: the :: then :: think :: visual :: with :: wonderful :: world :: youSource: brainyquote.com
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It`s striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
Ali Aoun
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
Alex Attwood
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
Alan Curry
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Andrew Arrington
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I`ve just got to be patient. Hopefully I keep striking the ball the way I did today and keep rolling it the same way. There`s a lot of golf left.
Angel Sanchez
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I was striking the ball well, but I couldn`t make too many putts today,
Mike Roberts
