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  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
  • Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
  • Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
  • And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
  • There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
  • There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
  • Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
  • Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
  • Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bobby Fischer The Jews have been hardened against Christ, against decency for thousands of years... They're gonna have to be annihilated, Eugene.
    Speaking to Eugene Torre, Radio Interview, May 24 1999 [13]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • John Keats Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • W. Mitchell Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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  • Ben Carson Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Alexander Pope But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lord George Byron But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. L. R. James Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bill Vaughan Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Paul Auster Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Davy Crockett Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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