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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. — Andrei Tarkovsky
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human… — Antonin Artaud
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — Johannes Kepler
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves… — Confucius
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has… — Ambrose Bierce
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years… — Vernor Vinge
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. — Nathanael Emmons
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a… — Oswald Chambers
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and… — Brother Lawrence
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) -… — Thomas Guthrie
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression… — Andrew Solomon
I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows… — Hugo Wolf
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. — Benito Mussolini
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show… — Walter Scott
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it. — A.C. Grayling
We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are… — Ronald Reagan
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of… — Khalil Gibran
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and… — E F Schumacher
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons
Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From… — Richard Bach
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. — Betty Friedan

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