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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

Success, Work, Hard

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge, Gossip, Person

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller

Success, Travel, Rather

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

War, Against, Battles

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

Watch, Wit, Winding

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

Wait, Hot, Striking

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus

Feeling, Face, Street

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

Decision, Quality, Victim

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Him, Wait, Until

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Husband, Woman

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

War, Art, Moving

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey

Liberty, Problem, Until

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope

May, Eyes, Pretty

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Oliver Cromwell

While, Hot, Striking

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe

Fear, Heart, Enemy

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Heart, Woman

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope

Soul, Sight, Wins

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth

Home, Next, Run

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

Read, Fine, Meet

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

Spirit, Worst, Force

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette Davis

Dying, Consider, Newspaper

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer

Often, Passionate, Machines

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham

Days, Meet, Prepared

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Willie Tyler

Time, Same, Place

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, State, Event

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner

Saying, Thinking, Everybody

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield

Learning, Learned, Show

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