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- But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is… — Martin Luther
- Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M.F.K. Fisher
- If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend… — Jordan Belfort
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw
- Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years… — Pete Seeger
- Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south.… — Mao Zedong
- Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. — Michael Pollan
- I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute… — Eudora Welty
- You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more,… — Agatha Christie
- When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee
- The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian… — Dorothy Dunnett
- Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go. — Alexander Gordon Smith