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• If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

  Chuck Norris

  Home, Gun, Thug

  Chuck Norris (2009). “Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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  I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
  Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
  When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Ephesians

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press

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• [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

  L. Neil Smith

  Scum, Littles, Settling

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  Horace Greeley

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed - thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran". Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1973.

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• One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

  Jim Rogers

  Lying, Waiting, Investing

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

  Tig Notaro

  Zero, School, Texas

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

  Greta Gerwig

  Horizon, Felt, Looking Down

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

  Malalai Joya

  Gun, Democracy, Bombs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Fun, Thoughtful, Interesting

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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• Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

  Robert Anthony

  Ideas, Rivers, Cups

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.

  Keith Rabois

  Unique, Numbers, People

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• Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

  Keith Rabois

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.

  Eric Bolling

  Wall, Cutting, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sea

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• To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

  Tommy Douglas

  Gun, Accepting, Principal

  Tommy Douglas' speech at Luther College in Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.

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• I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.

  Dan Savage

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

  John Olver

  Years, Oil, Effort

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• There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

  Francis Thompson

  Men, Labels, Paradise

  'A Judgement in Heaven' (1913) epilogue

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• Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wine, Ale

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

  Michael Medved

  Sorry, Team, Gun

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• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  Ben Affleck

  Hero, Issues, Play

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

  Hannah Arendt

  Gun, Perfect, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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