“ Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond. ”
- Herb Kohl- Copy
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“ The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death. ”
- Paul Ehrlich- Copy
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“ I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. ”
- Steve Guttenberg- Copy
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“ Well, you tell them that Han Solo just stole back the Millennium Falcon, for good! ”
- Han Solo- Copy
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“ A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. ”
- William Petty- Copy
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“ Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan? ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
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“ Everyone does one thing better than you. If you learn one good idea a thousand times, you will have a thousand good ideas. ”
- Bob Gaudreau- Copy
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“ Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
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“ They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, a picture is worth a thousand memories; for when all is said and done, it is the memories that last with us forever. ”
- Jeffrey A. Goodman- Copy
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“ Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
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“ Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity. ”
- Wernher Von Braun- Copy
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“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”
- Russell Wayne Baker- Copy
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“ Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life. ”
- Ben Sweetland- Copy
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“ If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then still another thousand, then a hundred, Then, when we've made many thousands, We'll muddle them so as not to know. ”
- Catullus- Copy
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“ Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Torturing the terrorist is unconstitutional? Probably. But millions of lives surely outweigh constitutionality. Torture is barbaric? Mass murder is far more barbaric. Indeed, letting millions of innocents die in deference to one who flaunts his guilt is moral cowardice, an unwillingness to dirty one's hands… ”
- Michael Levin- Copy
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“ For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence… ”
- J.W.N. Sullivan- Copy
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“ I've gone into hundreds of and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. ”
- New York City detective- Copy
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“ Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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