#striking

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. ↗

— Max Lerner

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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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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

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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

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

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