#striking

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. ↗

— Richard Owen

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

— Honore de Balzac

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— William Butler Yeats

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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 is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

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