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knock off
«The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience»
Author: Charley Jones
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college student, compensates, conferred, knocked, knock off, School of, sheepskin, sheepskins, student, The school
«If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.»
Author: Hillary Clinton
(First Lady, Senator)
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front page, hairstyle, knock, knock off, The Front, The Front Page
«Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.»