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"With regard to a secret divulged and kept concealed, there is an excellent proverb, that the one is an arrow still in our possession, the other is an arrow sent from the bow." »Jami
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"Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man." »Charles Boyle
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"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." »Graffito
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"Do not throw the arrow which will return against you." »Kurdish Proverb
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"It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return." »Unknown
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"The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion." »Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"
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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes
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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes
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"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent." »Mackay
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"If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick." »Bob Dylan
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"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." »Helen Keller
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"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." »Aesop
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"Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." »Arabian Proverb
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"A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing." »Magha
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"The fish dwell in the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man at a foot?s distance cannot be known.*" »Burmese Proverb
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"The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance." »Akhenaton
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"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." »Lisa Grossman
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"An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart." »Roger Zelazny
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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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