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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#also #bar #blows #bodies #case

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ↗

— Mark Twain

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One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots. ↗

— Diane Watson

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#get #never #out #striking #way

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. ↗

— George III

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It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. ↗

— Ville Valo

#arts #away #bit #cool #existing