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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great… — Niall Ferguson
In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and… — Larry Brilliant
Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan? — Jay Leno
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic. — Barbara Demick
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. — Duke Snider
I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts — Andrea Gibson
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother. — Andrea Gibson
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men… — Hermann Bahr
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. — Rick Yancey
The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for… — Unknown Author
The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So… — RuPaul
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled… — Norman Lamm
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. — Shelagh Delaney
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and… — Orson Pratt
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about… — Edwin Black
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as… — Lin Biao
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority. — Houston Stewart Chamberlain
How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day,… — John Creasey
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times.… — Elizabeth Prentiss
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful… — Ann Voskamp
You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait. — Doug Rader
What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human… — Wayne Muller

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