Quotes with thousand-a-year

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  • John Mortimer Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Bernie Sanders For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Napoleon Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Voltaire Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Basil Bunting Gin the goodwife stint
    and the bairns hunger
    the Duke can get his rent
    one year longer.
    Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • William James Mayo Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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  • Bobby Scott Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Jones Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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