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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing! — John W. Vessey, Jr.
Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands. — Adela of Normandy
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all… — Daniel Tammet
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands… — Thomas Jefferson
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands. — Samuel Goldwyn
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the… — Nelson A. Miles
The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest… — John Eliot
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which… — Matthieu Ricard
Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won… — Dustin Hoffman
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer… — William S. Burroughs
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. — Alexander Pope
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of… — Eckhart Tolle
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much… — K.J. Parker
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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