Hundred Thousand Quotes
126 quotes by 117 authors
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…
— Henry Adams
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
— Jeremy Cronin
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Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
— St. Jerome
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A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I…
— Arthur Eddington
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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar…
— Michel de Montaigne
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis…
— Alexander Berkman
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a…
— James Madison
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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest…
— Michael Denton
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There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
— Heather Matarazzo
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It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and…
— George McGovern
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human…
— Antonin Artaud
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been…
— Marston Bates
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Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
— Isaac Asimov
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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for…
— Chuck Jones
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Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we…
— Mary Landrieu
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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren…
— Denis Kearney
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One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
— Kurt Tucholsky
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