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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… — Denis Johnson
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. — Daniel Defoe
from one thing, know ten thousand things — Miyamoto Musashi
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold… — Mark Z. Danielewski
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to… — John O'Donohue
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your… — Marcus Aurelius
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.… — Meg Cabot
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. — Orson Scott Card
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How… — Robert Burns
Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term. — Eoin Colfer
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. — Malcolm Gladwell
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais… — Cormac McCarthy
There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as… — George Carlin
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these… — Don DeLillo
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone. — Leonard Cohen
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago… — Richard Dawkins

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