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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. — Edward Abbey
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. — Edward Abbey
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and… — Samuel Adams
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… — Thomas Paine
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what… — Ray Bradbury
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an… — James Madison
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall… — John Quincy Adams
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now. — Shemp Howard
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
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it. — Thornton Wilder
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind,… — Ian MacKaye
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five… — Dr. John
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities. — Lars von Trier
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I… — Rabindranath Tagore
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a… — Rabindranath Tagore
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
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes… — Ingrid Newkirk
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. — William Tecumseh Sherman
I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender. — Robert E. Lee
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all… — Robert E. Lee

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