Quotes with thousand-a-year

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  • Dave Barry There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Meister Eckhart There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • C. Everett Koop There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Arthur Hailey There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Ben Affleck There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Algernon Sydney There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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  • Bob Mould There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Campbell Brown This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Bode Miller This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Owens This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • John Milton Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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