Quotes with thousand-a-year

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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bobby Jindal Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Jerry Gillies Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • James Allen Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Oliver Stone Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
    Schneier, Bruce. Interview with Doug Kaye. IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier. 2004-04-16.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bret Michaels Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill McKibben Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Bob Ehrlich Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • William Shakespeare My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Cosby My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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