#striking

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order. ↗

— Carl Hubbell

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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do. ↗

— Evan Davis

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ↗

— George Meredith

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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. ↗

— Richard Neal

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