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"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob A. Riis
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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob August Riis
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"blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude." »William Shakespeare
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"Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow." »Mouth organist Larry Adler
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"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath." »Aesop
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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." »Peter Ustinov
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"blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." »Theodore Hesburgh
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"For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." »Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
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"strike the tent." »Robert E. Lee, last words, 12 October 1870.
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"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to." »Moliere
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"We have so much time and so little to do. strike that, reverse it." »Roald Dahl
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike." »William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1
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"There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it." »Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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"He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike." »William Shakespeare
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"When you strike at a king, you must kill him." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed." »Bernard Joseph Saurin
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"strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." »Calvin Coolidge
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"One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." »Sigmond Freud
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"Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love." »Lewis Lew Wallace
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"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." »Jim Morrison
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"The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen" »Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
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"The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow." »Hindu Drama
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"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." »Samuel Johnson
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"absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." »Frederick W. Faber
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"strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." »Mark Beltaire
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"If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance." »William S. Gilbert
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