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• Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Rejection, Feelings

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  People, Perfect, Silence

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• It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hours, Masters, Valuable

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• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  Nikola Tesla

  Discovery, Years, Giving

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• Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery."

  Jim Rohn

  People, Giving, Lectures

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• I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Thinking, Should Have

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• The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

  David Deutsch

  Biblical, Years, Data

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• You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mother, Wall, Book

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• In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Land, Shapes, Way

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1085, Best Books on

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• History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Reading, Home

  "Peoples, Places and Books". Book by Gilbert Highet, 1953.

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• A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

  David Bodanis

  Past, Oxygen, Years

  David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books

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• I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, New Year, Men

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• Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.

  A. B. Simpson

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Art

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

  John Flavel

  Soul, World, Ten

  John Flavel (1698). “Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man: Wherein the Divine Original, Excellent and Immortal Nature of the Soul are Opened ...”, p.42

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• Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Sea

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• Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Perfection, People

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.445

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• I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Crowns, Poverty

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1758, e-artnow

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• A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Writing, Expression, Choices

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• During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

  Ariel Pink

  Different, Torn, Knows

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Years, Victory, Germany

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• One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.

  Stephen Spender

  America, Years, Two

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• In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Liberty, Fields, Driving

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.200, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

  Pat Robertson

  Wings, United States, Racist

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