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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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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. ↗

— Francis Crick

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Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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

— George Meredith

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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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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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