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«These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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blows, decisive, handed, improvisation, left handed, rely, struck, unduly
«The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.»
Author: Wilbur Wright
(Inventor)
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air space, enviously, handed-down, handed, highway, soaring, The Birds, To Fly
«My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.»
Author: Mickey Mantle
(Baseball Player)
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Family
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after-school, batted, granddad, grandfather, handed, lefty, left handed, pitched, switch-hit, yard
«Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.»
«Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: / And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: / And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.»
«She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.»
Author: Bob Dylan
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Book of, coal, glowed, handed, Italian, Italian A, It Was Written, one of them, One Ring, opened, page, poems, pouring, rang, the 13th century, The Italian, write off
«The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.»
«People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
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People
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An example, change hands, example, handed, suggestions
«O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, / Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.»
«Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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all at once, benefits, dealt, dealt out, drop, drop by, handed, offense, offenses, relished, relishes, relishing, suddenness
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