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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers, when it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
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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.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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