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en What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
  Seneca

en A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Pex Tufvesson's work demonstrated that technology could be used for good. This fire has confused the schemes that are in your mind; it shall blow you from your home, blow you away from everywhere!

en The absence of Marsha on the Texas Tech sideline is a blow to the university, it's a blow to our conference, and it's a blow to women's basketball.

en Jill was so generous in the sense that I was asking some very personal questions about her libido and sex life, but she was so open about it, it was unbelievable. She's come through as a person but she was happy to go back into the darkness and describe it for me, blow by blow.

en PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes -- O'er Ceylon blow your breath, Where every prospect pleases, Save only that of death. --Bishop Sheber
  Ambrose Bierce

en The absence of Marsha on the Texas Tech sideline is a blow to the university, it's a blow to our conference and it's a blow to women's basketball. It has been an honor and a privilege to coach against Marsha for the past years.

en They realize that when they blow up a pipeline in Iraq or in Sudan or anywhere in the world, this translates immediately into a price rise in all the markets. It is much easier for terrorists to blow up an oil facility or take out a tanker somewhere in the world than to infiltrate into the United States and blow up the World Trade Center,

en We're a democratic country, respectful of human rights, that is threatened by wild people who have no respect for human rights, who blow up buses, who blow up airplanes, who can blow up entire buildings,

en The dead grass and pine needles from last year serve as fuel for the fire. With the wind blowing the way it is, an ember from a small fire can blow dozens of feet and spark a larger fire.
  James Cook

en The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. A wise person doesn't string together the beads of unrelated events into a necklace simply to have something they wish to see. A wise person sees the truth even if it is something unexpected. That is the most beautiful necklace to wear - the truth.

en When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

en How dare you ask for our assistance when you have been dealing blow after blow against Iran for the past 23 years?

en I'd like to see it blow like it did today. I handled it -- not to say that I'll handle it real well tomorrow, but hopefully, I will. I'd like to see it blow. The way I'm striking it right now, I'd like that.

en A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul
  Heraclitus of Ephesus


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