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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
by Ted Nelson (Author, American , born in 1937) keywords: computer, course, graduate, lightening, school, second, striking, took , year Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
by John Osborne (Playwright, English , born in 1929) keywords: alone, began, go, god, got, here, just, make, only, ourselves, piece, rock, seems, simple, somehow, something, striking, sunlight , universe 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.
by Richard Owen (Scientist, English , born in 1804) keywords: affects, certain, chain, contributes, darwin, even, ingenious, instances, life, mr, network, obliteration, partially, principle, rather, some, striking, total, way , which It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
by Ronald Reagan (President, American , born in 1911) keywords: bears, been, first, learned, oldest, politics, profession, resemblance, said, second , striking As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
by Babe Ruth (Athlete, American , born in 1895) keywords: batters, been, born, easy, felt, got, just, most, mound, natural, out, pitcher, pitching, relationship, soon, strange, striking, thing , world From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
by Carl Schurz (Revolutionary, German , born in 1829) topics: Equality keywords: blow, cannot, dangerous, equality, highest, identity, interests, neighbor, our, own, rights, springs, striking, subvert, without , your I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Playwright, Irish , born in 1751) keywords: also, attention, audience, awful, clock, deal, description, eastern, four, great, hemisphere, marks, morning, open, rising, saves, striking, sun, time , which The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
by Alexander Solzhenitsynkeywords: being, building, clock, come, communism, concrete, crashing, crushed, down, freeing, instead, must, ourselves, reason, rubble, save, stopped, striking, try , yet We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
by Oliver Tambo (Politician, South African , born in 1917) keywords: africa, apartheid, believe, destroy, economy, firstly, south, striking, too , world 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.
by Gene Tunney (Athlete, American , born in 1897) keywords: around, been, blow, boxing, dodging, fooling, gloves, had, interested, kid, more, reason, side, some, striking, temperament, than , west One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: between, cat, differences, lie, lives, most, nine, only , striking 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.
by Ville Valo (Musician , born in 1976) keywords: again, arts, away, bit, cool, existing, images, just, latter, make, more, really, same, second, some, striking, take, then, think, visual, wonderful , world 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.
by Ginny B. Waitekeywords: advancement, events, foreign, freedoms, furthers, important, most, policy, rights, significant, states, striking, these, united, while , women 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.
by Diane Watson (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: attack, before, between, connect, dots, each, failed, government, harbor, instance, our, parallels, pearl, signs, striking, warning , were 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.
by Wendell Willkie (Lawyer, American , born in 1892) keywords: accomplished, bring, crisis, disastrous, freedom, hour, human, process, question, required, shackles, single, slave, striking , war
