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Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the… — Barack Obama
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with -… — Boris Pasternak
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of… — Haruki Murakami
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds… — John Ruskin
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… — Alberto Manguel
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but… — Gregory Maguire
Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we… — Boyd K. Packer
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in… — Nhat Hanh
By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men… — C.S. Lewis
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... — John Muir
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under… — George Orwell
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some… — Thomas Hardy
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and… — Stephen King
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,… — Thomas Merton
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! — Unknown Author
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse… — Hermann Hesse
He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow. — James Frey
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a… — Markus Zusak
But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered,… — Elizabeth Strout

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