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• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Live Life, Men

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• The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

  Hugh Grant

  Mean Girls, Romantic, Scripts

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• The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Years, Naked

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• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

  Nhat Hanh

  Years, Despair, Calm

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Trying, Four

  "What's the story?" by Robert Harris, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Space, Race

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  Salma Hayek

  Choices, Kingdoms, Different

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• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Country, Horse

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

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• Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Heart, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

  David Hilbert

  Years, Would Be, Awakening

  "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". Book by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258, 1999.

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• I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

  Ann Hood

  Meaningful, Strong, Kissing

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• New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Travel, Adventure, Discovery

  "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".

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• I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Islamic, Kites, Sun

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• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (1896). “Dramas”

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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Country, Thinking, Sheep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Wisdom, School

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• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.23, e-artnow

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, Australia

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• If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Motivation, Thinking

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• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

  Janis Joplin

  Fake People, Lonely, Loneliness

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