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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.


Edmund Burke


#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.


George W. Bush


#going #quick #sharp #tongue #year

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.


Samuel Butler


#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.


James Carville


#elbows #sharp #something #want #you

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.


Elisabeth Schwarzkopf


#go #had #harps #i #indiana

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#each #ears #fields #individual #just

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.


Whitfield Diffie


#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.


Edsger Dijkstra


#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.


David Dinkins


#arm #sharpton #twist #you






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