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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. — Richard Chenevix Trench
Thousand points of light. — George H. W. Bush
On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And… — John F. Kennedy
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in… — Isaac Asimov
The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even… — Sathya Sai Baba
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us… — Walter Pater
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.
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us… — Jean-Paul Marat
Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like… — Milan Kundera
Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is… — Ken Wilber
The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World… — Tom Harkin
It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't… — Marat Safin
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. — Pat Conroy
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
When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater,… — Suzanne Farrell
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth
And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll… — Christina Perri
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There… — Winston Churchill
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
A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but… — Paulo Coelho
To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career… — Unknown Author
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides

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