Few Thousand Quotes
42 quotes by 38 authors
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would…
— Bono
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Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by…
— Isaac Asimov
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The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand…
— Isaac Asimov
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We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a…
— Paul Davies
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When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we…
— Dalai Lama
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
— Robert Menzies
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A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
— Carl Sagan
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May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There…
— Winston Churchill
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There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.…
— Bryan Caplan
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
— Jared Diamond
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on…
— Harpo Marx
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Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,…
— Robertson Davies
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I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand…
— Roone Arledge
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You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.
— Doug Rader
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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it…
— Lewis Thomas
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I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a…
— Ricky Gervais
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Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked…
— Frans de Waal
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Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at…
— T. Colin Campbell
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