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knocked
«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
«My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.»
«Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
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Cambridge, chiefly, gently, knocked, knocked out, oxford, undergraduate, Undergraduates
«Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers»
«Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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knocked, middle of the road, traffic
«The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| Keywords:
coming, coming back, essence, glory, knees, knocked| Occasions:
Olympic
«Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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abortion, at best, block out, comparable, compulsion, hewing, hewn, in full view, knocked, limbs, sprung, transit, yields
«No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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boldly, dragon, knocked, Paul, Paul A, Paul I