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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bob Filner Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Carl Paladino Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Daniel Defoe Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Blaise Pascal Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mark Twain To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Buddy Rich To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Seward To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Bill Ayers Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Carl Sandburg Under the summer roses
    When the flagrant crimson
    Lurks in the dusk
    Of the wild red leaves,
    Love, with little hands,
    Comes and touches you
    With a thousand memories,
    And asks you
    Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
    Under the Harvest Moon (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Billy Sunday Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Emily Brontë Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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