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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Miles Corn Easy Field
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.

Brave Once Coward Man
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Thousands Sage Mind Distract
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A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.
Coward Dies Soldier Thousand
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When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

Ask Could Done Five
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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Peace Better Word Bring
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Hero Among Wise Found
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It’s not a speculative market. It’s a very, very large market. It’s been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Category Music Speculate Market
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America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Killed Attack Years Kurds
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The air of freedom we breathe today is the result of the sacrifices of thousands of pro-democracy activists, human rights campaigners and others who organised as civil society.

Society Freedom Breathe Civil
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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.

Great Mind Overcome Obstacle
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It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger…
Terrifying Rich People Dying
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

Love Ruined Indulgence Children
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I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Love Loneliest Man World
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Age Computation Even Good
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Greatest Error Biggest Deception
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

In LosAngeles Gained Lost
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Battles Enemy Know Self
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

Across Appeared Back Darkness
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Art Beauty Stars Fairer
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Begin Difficult Difficult Things Easy
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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.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Build Humans Interesting Live
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Advance Affairs Could Days
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Journey Miles Must Peace
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.

Angeles Came Dollar First
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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.'

About Celebrate Choice Different
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Based Been Date Ideas
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

Buy Cancer Cost Costs
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Bird Dance How Learn
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Beloved Body Contain Could
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Again Go Go Home Ground
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The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!

Among Christian Convert Doctrines
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Admiration Ahead Get Get Married
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Cannot Cared Disease Drought
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Calm Days Divine Equally
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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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.

Both Course Disdain Extremism
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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