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• Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fate, Order, Years

  Jimmy Buffett (2001). “Jimmy Buffett, Guitar Anthology Series: Authentic Guitar TAB Edition”, p.95, Alfred Music

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• The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

  Abigail Adams

  Sleep, House, Revolution

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Levels, Blank

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• I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

  Joanne Harris

  Gang, Left, Bits

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• You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

  Josh Billings

  Stupidity, Balls

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• It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

  Benito Mussolini

  Powerful, War, Voice

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• A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Volcanoes, May, Size

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.75

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• It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.

  Bryan Fuller

  Firsts, Kind, Shots

  Source: theweek.com

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• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Lightning, Principles

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• Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
  The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goes On, Revolution, Lashes

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.267, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

  Mark Twain

  Mouths, Reputation, Empty

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

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• You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, Insulting, Acting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Dark, Secret

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• That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

  Rick Riordan

  Majesty, Hera

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• The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Rocks, Generations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motorcycle, Made, Shots

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

  Herman Melville

  War, Would Be, Purpose

  Herman Melville (2006). “Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories”, p.75, Bantam Classics

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• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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• Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.

  Kate Siegel

  Mother, Baby, Home

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Tree, Splinters

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

  Jane Fonda

  Imperialism, Used, Fodder

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• Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Feet, Goes On, Revolution

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• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Gun, Doors, Two

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