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My favorite film is 'The Empire Strikes Back.' My writing, and my personal taste in movies and books, tends toward works with a darker tone, and 'Empire' fits that the best of all the movies. Paul S. Kemp

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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. Paul Theroux

Life Me People Strikes About Known Realization Whole

In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak of the campaign in the country, according to data collected by New America. Peter Bergen

Country Year Strikes States Collected Data More Except New Campaign Yemen According Than America Any United United States Peak

Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.' Peter Bergen

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I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge. Pierce Brown

Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all. Rachel Simmons

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It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. Richard Grimes

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The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. Richard J. Needham

Service Strikes Ghastly Postal About Over Returns Normal After Thing

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. Richard Savage

Man Anger Thought Action Strikes Way Hot Like Safely Deepest

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. River Phoenix

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It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that. Robbie Fowler

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If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. Ron Perlman

Me Unjust Strikes Insane Something Cannot Tolerate

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three. Roseanne Barr

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By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part. Rusty Schweickart

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What strikes me as most significant is that young people everywhere in India are anxious to do something. But I have also felt they are not quite clear in their mind as to what they should do. Sanjay Gandhi

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Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone. Sarah Sutton

Everyone Strikes Bad Bad Taste Always Leave Taste

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently. Sean Elliott

Example Strikes Way Kidney Prime Disease

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