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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if… — David Starr Jordan
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his… — Benjamin Franklin
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy;… — Unknown Author
Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times. — Randy Glasbergen
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… — John Milton
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite.… — Richard Bach
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand… — Scott Cunningham
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a… — Robert Bly
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm of Canterbury
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence. — St. Catherine of Siena
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always… — George Bernard Shaw
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one… — Wes Montgomery
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height… — Confucius
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred. — Robert McNamara
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. — Marcus Aurelius
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows… — William Wordsworth
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A… — Samuel Rogers
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound… — Tryon Edwards
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. — Irwin Shaw
Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We… — Joe Perry
FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe. — Morihei Ueshiba
One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it. — Andre Soltner

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