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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as… — Wallace Tripp
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked… — Frans de Waal
Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the… — Charles Spurgeon
But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand… — Justin Martyr
Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys… — Michael Brune
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones
I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I have some salt?'… — Christopher Walken
A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers. — Woody Harrelson
And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to… — Barack Obama
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for… — Stephen Hawking
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. — Swami Vivekananda
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. — Swami Vivekananda
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should… — Charles Spurgeon
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. — William James Mayo
Being a bad writer a thousand times first. — Gail Simone
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed… — Michael Crichton
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things… — Baron de Montesquieu
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. — Jonathan Swift
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace;… — Winston Churchill
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison. — Francois Fenelon
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of… — Mao Zedong
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of… — Hugh Gaitskell
...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure… — Jeffrey Bland

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