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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Salman Rushdie You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Burton Cummings You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Robert M. Pirsig Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Pablo Picasso When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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