#striking

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#events #foreign #foreign policy #freedoms #furthers

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bring #crisis #disastrous #freedom #hour

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#keyboard #like #note #striking #uttering

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

#before #bin #even #irrelevant #killed

Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

#easy #out #striking

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

— Carl Hubbell

#gehrig #order #out #ruth #striking

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

#application #critical #demands #judgment #looks

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

#done #i #many #much #never