Six Hundred Quotes
42 quotes by 37 authors
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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and…
— Arthur Koestler
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I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget…
— Bruce Dern
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A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and…
— Oliver Stewart
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On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other,…
— Michael Lang
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Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen…
— Lou Thesz
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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my…
— Jonathan Swift
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One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
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The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s…
— Reuven Rivlin
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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
— Jean-Paul Marat
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Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular…
— Christmas Evans
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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,…
— Mao Zedong
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A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six…
— Adolf Hitler
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One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all…
— Emiliano Zapata
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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million…
— Shelby Foote
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