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  • Walter Benjamin These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Baldwin Spencer Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • John Webster We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Barney Ross We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carlisle Floyd When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Blair Underwood You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Denis Diderot We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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