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"Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued." »Helen Keller
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"Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained." »Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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"I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields
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"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry." »Alan Bleasdale
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"There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." » W. Somerset Maugham
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"The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." »William Gladstone
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." »Thomas Hobbes
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." »William Hazlitt
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon
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"When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." »John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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"Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis." »Herodotus
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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong
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"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno
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"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." »James Agee
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"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." »Marquis de Sade
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"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider
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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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