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Letter "L" » lightning
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
agitation, cropped, crops, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, favor, favoring, ground, lightning, like thunder, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing, rain, struggle, thunder, thundered, thundering
«If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.»
Author: Lee Trevino
(Golfer)
| About:
Golf
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caught, golf, golf course, hold up, iron, lightning, storm
«How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.»
Author: Lee Trevino
(Golfer)
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divorced, lightning, Lightning Strikes, operations, strike back, struck
«A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
lightning, Lightning Strikes, manages, six times, struck, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.»
Author: Theodor Reik
(Author, Psychoanalyst)
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attract, flashes, innovator, innovators, lightning, lightning rod, rods, thinkers, wrath
«And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.»
«Electricity is really just organized lightning.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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electricity, lightning, organized, organizes
«His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.»
«Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
leaping, lightning, measured
«He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning.»
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