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To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths. — Scott McCloud
The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones… — Ronald Graham
Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these… — Fred Phelps
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,… — Jared Diamond
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the… — Jared Diamond
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into… — Imre Lakatos
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state. — Hendrik Verwoerd
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the… — Ruth Reichl
The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather… — Franz Kafka
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed… — Unknown Author
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great… — Unknown Author
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on… — Harpo Marx
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. — Billy Sunday
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice. — Paul Fleischman
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a… — Mickey Kaus
I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy… — Florence Welch
My Wings are a thousand books. — Gill Robb Wilson
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer. — Jacob Abbott
There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one. — Ernst Lubitsch
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can… — Karla Kuskin
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then… — George Nakashima

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