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"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." »Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)
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"Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers." »American Proverb
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"The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul." »Rona Barrett
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"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee." »Phyllis Diller
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"Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman." »William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
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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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"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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"'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, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
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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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"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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"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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"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary." »Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
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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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"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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