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Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical,…
— Francis Crick
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed
— Barack Obama
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand…
— Antonin Artaud
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead…
— Herman Melville
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Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
— Craig Kilborn
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We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy…
— Gunther Rall
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
— Nathaniel Parker
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero…
— Pete Rose
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Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
— John Balguy
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth…
— Plato
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The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened…
— Guo Xiang
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
— William Wordsworth
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people…
— Muhammad Ali
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To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A…
— David Brin
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Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
— Du Fu
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Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.
— Barack Obama
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The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a…
— Daniel Levitin
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Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand…
— Paul Washer
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Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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