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There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention. — Matt Drudge
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of… — A. Whitney Brown
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he… — Marcus Aurelius
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Rich people see every dollar as a "seed" that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn… — T. Harv Eker
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so concerned about a thousand and… — Rajneesh

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