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«Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.»
«A barrel full of certainties won't roll very far.»
Author: Gerd de Ley | Keywords: barrel, certainties, roll
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
«Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball.»
«If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel»
«Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.»
«And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.»
«Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.»
Author: Bill Clinton (President) | Keywords: barrel, barreling, ink
«A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.»
«Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: barrel

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