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«The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.»
Author: George J. Seidel | About: Ability | Keywords: connect, fashion, odd, Odd and, relate, striking
«Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Power | Keywords: revealed, strike hard, striking
«Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.»
«That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.»
Author: Nitin Nohria | Keywords: striking
«The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit»
«Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.»
«The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Future | Keywords: characteristic, of our own, striking
«One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.»
«There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.»
«What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing»

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