Three Thousand Quotes

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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. — Hank Aaron
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no… — Jacob Bronowski
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one… — Marcus Aurelius
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall… — Jules Verne
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
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
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them… — Mark Twain
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order… — P.J. O'Rourke
Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death. — Tadeusz Borowski
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough â€“ I wrote faster than I would write a letter â€“ two thousand… — Helen Hunt
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero… — Pete Rose
On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams,… — Carl Yastrzemski
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit… — Carl Yastrzemski
Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game — Rafael Palmeiro
As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out.… — Mark Rydell
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height… — Confucius
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. — Martha Graham

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