Quotes with thousand-a-year

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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Brendan Behan One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • William Shakespeare One good deed, dying
    slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
    The Winter's Tale
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir William Watson Pain with the thousand teeth.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Winston Churchill Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Brad Feld Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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