“For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.” YearsFivePoetEqualHundred Author:Walther von der Vogelweide
“A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldWellsLooksLittlesMadeFacesTruth IsEqualPaperHundredAimConstantListsHonestlyCirclesMannersExcellentGenerousGentlemanScoreCoatsScrapManlyMake Out Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.” MayTwoWarUseHandsOrderCoursesForceNationsMaterialsEqualTrainingHundredResourcesTasksUnityObviousSpeedDefenseNeighborPursueOpponentsFortyEquipmentEmergenciesJuneHarnessNineteenDaggersSimultaneous Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!” IfsMenShouldYearsIndividualYouthAmountEqualHundredTwentiesEightIf I CouldEmsPoundsHallsSchoolingSixteenPresent TimeFondnessTuition Author:Charles Dickens
“The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.” MenYearsSaidKnowingEqualHundredYears AgoEqualityReally Mean Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.” IfsKnowsGivingYearsBelieveReasonDiesMinutesSceneTenEqualGiving UpHundredPlantFinancialRoadside Author:Robert Plant
“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWritingPersonsWantedBlackWhiteEqualRacismHundredWesternWoundsJournalismBlack PeopleWhite ManPeppers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.” YearsMadeValuesFightingCoursesWinningResultsDealsMoralFiveCenturyKingsBattleEqualHundredYears AgoConstantNobleMonstersFormulasAncestorMathematicianSuperiorityHypothesisMoral SuperiorityI Always Win Author:Catherynne M. Valente