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“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”

Ifs Years Actors Literature Rich Land Poet Hero Hundred Tragedy Jew Possession Classic Lasting Fifteen Aristocracy

Author:George Eliot

“Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.”

Made Space Saws Feet Thousand Hundred Twenties Streams Awe Broads Fifteen Yards Verge

Author:David Livingstone

“it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.”

“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.”

Whole Use Moving Four Happened Hundred Stones Paid Twenties Originals Dollars Drawing Treasure Agents Damn Convince Sixty Fifteen Rolling Rolling Stones Rue

Author:Ralph Steadman

“There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.”

People Stories Stuff Five Couple Hundred Twenties Producers Department Comment Fifteen Roger Twenty Five

Author:John Sayles

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.”

Years Given Existence Christianity Atheism Hundred Sacred Fifteen Preference Astronomers Profane

Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

“I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.”

Giving Years Has Beens Character Church Religious Party Hundred Program Criticism Logical Amendments Creeds Fifteen Rejected Suggestions Finality

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.”

Ifs Men Feelings Body Would Be Women Decision Millions Struggle Issues Benefits Hundred Bills Court Nine Reports Pregnant Fifteen Committees Legislation Symbolic Appearing Maternity

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?”

Years Science Language Periods Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Mathematics Income Titles Copies Steady Display Fifteen Outlines Linear Annuals Algebra Fifteen Years

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”

Men Years Humans Wells I Can Three Animal Effort Human Nature Genius Thousand Hundred Years Ago Extraordinary Customs Vegetables Fifteen Thousand Years Wiser Vary

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!”

World Needs Giving Sports Loses Chance Half Careers Wonderful Drama Hundred Shoes Champion Repeats Interviews Destroying Fifteen Lap Gracious World Champions Jenny

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.”

Years Wells Eye Past Sides Taught Thousand Ten Hundred Cameras Conservative Destroyed Pairs Fifteen Deceived Fifteen Years

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”

Writing Trying Years Littles Stills Book Play Seems Novel Poet Couple Pages Hundred Twenties Seven Very Good Determined Nine Novelists Fifteen Nine Years Nineteen Funny Book

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.”

Years Children Christian Wife Atheism Hundred Years Ago Fifteen Constantine

Author:Charles Chilton Moore

“Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.”

“Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.”

People World States Jobs Levels Hundred Nine Corporate Boards Seats Cents Fifteen Parliament Ninety Sixteen Thirteen Head Of State

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.”

Years Book Done Literature Taught Hundred Fifteen Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.”

Ifs Way Bigs Wanted Past Lying Left Rooms Written Doors Middle Fronts Hundred Shots Cat Size Fishes Staring Explanation Colour Apology Flash Fifteen Carpet Momentary Front Doors Big Fish

Book:Expecting Jeeves

Source: Expecting Jeeves

“My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”

Way Giving Years Long Remember Opportunity Names Five Heard Advice Adventure Son Hundred Horse Worthy Noble My Son Happy Life Ancestor Fifteen Noblemen

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.”

Source: Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition

“Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”

Thinking Believe Courses Hundred Don't Believe Fairy Fifty Forty Fifteen Librarian

Author:Neil Gaiman

“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name”

Reason Pain Remember Names Pleasure Five Ten Skills Percent Hundred Twenties Luck Fifty Fifteen Will Power

Author:Mike Shinoda

“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”

Real Use Knowing Hundred Pressure Pounds Squares Inches Fifteen Real Power

Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“Can you be sure?" "I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.”

Ifs Years Might Lasts My Own Boys Havens Hundred Ears Boxes Fifteen Sock

Author:Jessica Day George

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