#striking

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do. ↗

— Evan Davis

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ↗

— George Meredith

#country #deeper #fights #freedom #man

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. ↗

— Richard Neal

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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. ↗

— Ted Nelson

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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. ↗

— John Osborne

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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