Thousand Quotes
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What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!
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I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.
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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
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You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
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I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.
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The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
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The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
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You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
