Two Hundred Quotes
168 quotes by 148 authors
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
— Carol Bellamy
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began…
— Buffalo Bill
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
— Daniel Boone
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We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
— Edward Carpenter
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
— Fred Allen
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,…
— George F. Kennan
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There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely…
— Billy Sunday
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The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
— Red Smith
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As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -…
— Jay Leno
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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.…
— Mark Twain
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
— Casey Stengel
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Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
— Rumi
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
— Neil Simon
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In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In…
— Amory Lovins
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
— Peg Bracken
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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
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High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games;…
— Eugene Mirman
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a…
— John Ruskin
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I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
— Alessandro Manzoni
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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