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"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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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've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields
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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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"If you are a terror to many, then beware of many." »Ausonius
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"Greater is our terror of the unknown." »Titus Livius
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"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror." »Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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"The basis for optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Wilde
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"Biography lends to death a new terror." »Oscar Wilde
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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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"I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse." »Craig Volk
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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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"To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind." »Seneca
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"To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind." »Seneca
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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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"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division." »John Ruskin
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"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division." »John Ruskin
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"Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume." »Sa?di
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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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"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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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability." »Oscar Wilde
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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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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." »Harry S Truman
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"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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