Quotes with cannon-shots

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  • Alexander Cannon A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
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  • Jimmy Cannon England produces the best fat actors.
    Jimmy Cannon
    American sportswriter (1909 - 1973)
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  • Christopher Morley Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Isiah Thomas I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
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  • Napoleon If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Joseph Cannon In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Vic Braden Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
    Vic Braden
    American tennis player (1929 - 2014)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Walt Whitman Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Joseph Cannon Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Christopher Morley Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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