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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people… — Muhammad Ali
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than… — Malcolm Gladwell
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a… — Al Gore
You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it. — Huey Newton
Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?… — Erich Maria Remarque
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out… — Erich Maria Remarque
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand… — Henri Bergson
To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what… — Buddy Rich
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. — John Kricfalusi
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for… — Chuck Jones
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men… — Peter Kropotkin
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my… — Max Stirner
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A… — David Brin
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very… — Romain Rolland
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles — Du Fu
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.… — Bryan Caplan
Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow… — Annie Laurie Gaylor
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein… — Lu Tong
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade… — Denis Diderot
The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It… — Gianfranco Ferre
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi

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