#striking

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

#certain #chain #contributes #darwin #even

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#evil #hacking #root #striking #thousand

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

— Babe Ruth

#get #never #out #striking #way

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

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

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

— Carl Hubbell

#gehrig #order #out #ruth #striking

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. ↗