When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
Charles Krauthammer
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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The monetary impacts of malaria from the household to the global level are significant. Malaria tends to strike during harvest season, rendering families too sick and too weak to perform the work necessary to earn a living. Malaria-stricken families spend an average of over a quarter of their income on malaria treatment.
Tedros Adhanom
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I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
Neil Kinnock
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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
YouStrikeWillSpiritWorstOut
The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.
Daniel Hannan
StrikeWillNextDislikeHelpful
You can't see the bat hit the ball if you're generating any bat speed. If you're just laying the bat through the strike zone, sure, maybe.
Wade Boggs
SpeedYouStrikeSeeBallThrough
In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.
Oliver North
WorkPeopleDoneStrikeGrassMore
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
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You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
Joe Torre
ThinkYouDownStrikeFirstMiddle
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
Adam Mansbach
PeopleParentStrikeSaneKidsFew
I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member.
Maxine Peake
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
Ed Walsh
RememberStrikeI RememberWanted
If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.
Angus Young
BrainThinkYouKnowStrikeWell
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu
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Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime's Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.
Tom Reiss
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Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Rose Schneiderman
VictoryResultStrikeMeanOutBig
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
Mary Harris Jones
RailroadStrikeGoldenFarmersWest
Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?
Juhi Chawla
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Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.
Diana Gabaldon
WinterTimeSunStoneStrikeWill
How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
Christopher Meloni
DoingYearStrikeBankFirstSeason
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
Bruce Sutter
WalkStrikeMeanWildHardOut
My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.
Alice Hastings Bradley
PeopleWorldLadyStrikeNothing
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
Peter Ackroyd
TimeInterestingFindingKnowStrike
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