Quotes with hundred

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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Rock And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Betty Comden Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
    Betty Comden
    American musician and writer of screenplays (1917 - 2006)
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  • William Feather Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Casey Stengel Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Anthony Holden But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Angelina Grimke Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Carl Sagan Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bennett Miller Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Louis XIV Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • John Maynard Keynes For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Laurence Sterne For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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