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If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past… — Fred Bodsworth
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
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
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
I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and… — John Conyers
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. — Seneca the Younger
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them… — Mark Twain
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
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you,… — Honore de Balzac
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order… — P.J. O'Rourke
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that… — Saul Williams
Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it. — Unknown Author
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
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of… — Lord Byron
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he… — P.G. Wodehouse
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union… — John Milton
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand… — Herbert Hoover
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… — Beryl Markham
I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,… — Dale Carnegie
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,… — Roy H. Williams
I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a… — Ray Bradbury

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