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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where… — Samuel Johnson
I'm gathering Kylie thinks that all it takes to capture an image is to point and shoot. That's what everyone thinks. But there's a lot… — Valerie Thomas
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land… — Scott Anderson
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people… — Thomas A. Edison
Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy… — Ernest Hemingway
Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. — John Henry Newman
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils. — Woodrow Wilson
I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she was going out… — Leo Buscaglia
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two… — Eddie Campbell
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. — John F. Kennedy
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia… — L. Ron Hubbard
Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation… — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win — Rihanna
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand… — Aimee Carter
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway. — Kiera Cass
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten… — Zoroaster
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a… — William Butler Yeats
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in… — Luis de Camoes
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below. — Hudson Stuck
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all… — George H. W. Bush
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. — William Shakespeare

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