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“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.”

Believe Mean I Can Facts Opinion Mankind Thousand Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology

Book:A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

Source: A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

“I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.”

World Giving Mind I Can States Ignorance Buddhism Thousand Ten Billions State Of Mind Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.”

I Can Ready Thousand Speech Draws Nine Pounds

Author:Joseph Addison

“I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.”

Ifs Believe I Can Home Cry Thousand Flying Sail

Author:Tori Amos

“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Film Fighting Chance Audience Mines Thousand Dramatic Buying Tickets One Chance

Author:Woody Allen

“I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.”

Want May Long Art I Can War Thousand Pure Tasks Make Me Happy Posters Against War

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”

I Can Country Reading Silence Walking Thousand My Friends Eight Miles Family And Friends Find Me All Alone Miles Away Foreign Countries Thousand Miles Unreachable I Love My Friends Most Favorite

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert