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“I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.”

Thinking Knows Believe Hands Views Thousand Regard Mere Lawyer Fees Wigs

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.”

People Ifs World Religion Women Atheism Thousand Ten Regard Pioneers Priesthood

Author:Anandi Gopal Joshi

“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”

“Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.”

Source: Steppenwolf

“I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.”

Years Firsts Millions Pride Thousand Asking Regard

Author:Mary Balogh

“The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.”

Humanity Conditions Thousand Office Regard Mere Species Tenderness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.”

Knows Years Stories Reality Energy Simple Situation Environment Nice Thousand Pressure Regard Climate Change Data Thousand Years Unprecedented Tidy Proxy

Author:Keith Briffa

“It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was one thousand years ago. One might arguably suggest that the opposite is true. I seek to paint no idyll of the worlds before historical capitalism. They were worlds of little liberty, little equality, and little fraternity. The only question is whether historical capitalism represented progress in these regards, or regression.”

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.”

Men Wells Kind May War Death Morning Couple Thousand Regard Affair Civil War Hardened

Book:War is hell!

Source: War is hell!

“My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.”