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«There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.»
«We never knock, for nobody's there--Just me and my shadow, all alone and feeling blue.»
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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«Unless you are prepared to use our planes to knock out Cuban planes, then you shouldn't have started the thing in the first place.»
«The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.»
«Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Perseverance
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«Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.»
«So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you»
«Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.»
«The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Travel
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alien, innermost, knock, outer, shrine, The Traveler, traveler, worlds
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