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"Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers." »American Proverb
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"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." »Quentin Crisp
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"You're born naked, the rest is drag." »Ru Paul
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"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it." »Mark Twain
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"Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around." »Rick Reilly
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." »Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
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"'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." »Bible
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it." »Samuel Johnson
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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." »Kyle Chandler
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"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." »Anonymous
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"However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words." »Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea." »Lou Dorfsman
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana
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"Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." »Kim Hubbard
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"An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago." »Horace Mann
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"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars." »Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"
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"Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to." »Roger Zelazny
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"Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away Death really hates that" »Matt Frewer
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"One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong." »B. J. Gupta
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"It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)" »Ronald Reagan
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"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation." »Willa Cather
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"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people." »Louis Adamic
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