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I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams,… — Carl Yastrzemski
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit… — Carl Yastrzemski
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. — Pope Pius XII
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk… — Tom Peters
Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed. — Barack Obama
Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more. — Unknown Author
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to… — Michael Parenti
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go… — Betsy Byars
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a… — Daniel Levitin
Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game — Rafael Palmeiro
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills… — Kevin Powers
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two… — Elisabeth Elliot
You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years. — Margaret Sullavan
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. — Storm Jameson
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes — Benito Mussolini
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I… — Aldous Huxley
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This… — Duke of Wellington
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within… — Abraham Lincoln
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even… — James Longstreet
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be… — William Tecumseh Sherman
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with… — Fulton J. Sheen
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… — Oliver Goldsmith
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson

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