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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Pessimism
Damien Cannon

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Acting and Actors
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Charles Dickens

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Writers and Writing
Ken Kesey

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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Affection
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Nature
Eric Mackay

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
Work
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun