#striking

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

— Ted Nelson

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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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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #fear #hold #out #striking

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— Babe Ruth

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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Oliver Cromwell

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