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• It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.

  John Adams

  Horse, Kings, Freedom

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.546

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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  Felix Adler

  Anniversary, Country, People

  Felix Adler (1926). “The Fiftieth anniversary of the ethical movement, 1876-1926”

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• If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

  Ben Folds

  Redneck, Past, Might

  Song: Your Redneck Past

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• I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

  James Thurber

  Hands, Feet, Left Hand

  James Thurber (1996). “Writings and Drawings”, Library of America

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• Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

  John Adams

  Country, Independent, Heart

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.813, Library of America

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.  And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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• Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

  John Wesley

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Blow, Years, Two

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• Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

  Robert Hughes

  Moving, School, Numbers

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.181, Vintage

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• I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

  Alvin Lee

  Play, People, Crowds

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

  Teddy Wilson

  Jobs, Play, Pieces

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• On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.

  John McPhee

  Keys, Long, Water

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• It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Men, Animal

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.955, Library of America

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• This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

  John Adams

  Men, Years, Forever

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• Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

  Charles Mackay

  Sage, World, May

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

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• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

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• I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

  Shane Jones

  Believe, Two, Creating

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• We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

  Felix Adler

  Change, Years, History

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

  Lord Byron

  Land, Bridges, Wings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.264, Delphi Classics

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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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• We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

  Voltaire

  Art, Feet, Progress

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.163, e-artnow

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• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  Jack London

  Book, Writing, Add

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.10, Jack London

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• For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Names, Dollars

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