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“We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.”

Should Years Stills Certain Language Existence Thousand Distance Satisfaction Deeper Users Thousand Years Gratification Exhilaration

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.”

World Years Different Country Helping America Past Opportunity Chance Half Self Help Thousand Six Thousand Years

Author:Jim Rohn

“Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.”

Knows Years Self Helping Use Periods Thousand Manifestation Vegetables Thousand Years

Book:Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda

Source: Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda

“How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.”

“The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.”

Years Firsts Art Artist Changed Thousand Years Ago Definitions Fifty Thousand Years

Book:Art For Dummies

Source: Art For Dummies

“Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.”

“The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .”

Years Two Spirit Liberty Mankind Taught Lessons Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion

Source: The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”

Years Littles Lasts Time Hours Too Much Four Thousand Six Twenties Thousand Years

Author:Will Durant

“Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade soar and freeze the whole sky with snow. When a summer sun heats the globe rivers flood and men turn into fish and turtles. Who can judge a thousand years of accomplishments or failures?”

Source: The Poems of Mao Zedong

“Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?”

“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.”

Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.”

Knows Men Years Humans Answers Knowing Greater Civilization Thousand Ten Tradition Treats Western Affair Thousand Years Asia Pathways Western Civilization Scientology

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!”

“As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.”

“There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.”

Years Ends Tomorrow Thousand Years Ago Yesterday Instant Thousand Years

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

Ifs Years Thousand Procrastination Thousand Years

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.”

“It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.”

Years Wells Seems Happens Running Jobs Lasts Millions Thousand England Our Family Thousand Years Royal Royal Family

Author:Jay Leno

“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.”

Years Moments Care Next Minutes Thousand Hundred Foolish Thousand Years

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.”

Years Christian Wealth Christianity Democracy Thousand Vain Thousand Years Repetition Inheritance Good Christian Cumulative Science Education

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.”

Years Music Thousand Instinct Melancholy Echoes Thousand Years Pagan Explosives Barbarity Hungarians

Author:Bela Bartok

“The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.”

Years Home Lasts Pleasure Knowing New York Thousand Built Thousand Years Collectors Chariots New Home

Author:Kit Williams

“Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of the prophets, which bequeathed to the world the values of morality, law and justice, was after two thousand years, restored to its lawful owner - the members of the Jewish People, On its Land, we have built an exceptional national Home and State.”

People World Years Two States Home Law Values Nations Justice Land Morality Thousand Members Built Israel Prophet Owners Thousand Years Exceptional Law And Justice

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.”

Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.”

Thinking Years Culture Forget Products Thousand Ten Years Ago Mad Thousand Years Starks

Author:Chuck Lorre

“Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals”

Years Long Soul Hands Lasts Given Born Lord Kings Thousand India Saint Expected Thousand Years Prophecy Incarnation Dharma Advent Horde Great Souls Year One Maharashtra

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.”

“But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.”

Years Christian Thousand Built Prophet Resurrection Thousand Years Assured Jerusalem Ezekiel

Book:Dialogue of Justin With a Jew

Source: Dialogue of Justin With a Jew

“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.”

Years Different Spirit United Race Behinds Land Thousand Tradition Aim Gods Will Empires Thousand Years Majesty Splendid Commonwealth Old And New

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

Ifs Men Should Years Night Stars Thousand Staring Thousand Years Farewell One Night Good Night Determinism

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”

“It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.”

Ifs Years Mean Doe Ideas Ends States Thousand Europe Independent Britain Thousand Years

Author:Hugh Gaitskell

“A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.”

Men Years May Power Thousand Equal Thousand Years Pope Another Man

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!”

Years Two Christian Life Is Jesus Christ Lord Thousand Jesus Christ Years Ago Christian Life Thousand Years Lord Jesus Christ

Author:W. Ian Thomas

“We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.”

Way Years Long Art Hard Play Lasts Form Thousand Years Ago Crafts Thousand Years Handmade

Author:Steven Dietz

“What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?”

Thinking Years Firsts Mean Made Soul Eye Happened Modern Higher Thousand Creatures Hundred First Time Lonely Thousand Years

Book:The Body Artist

Source: The Body Artist

“Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.”

“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.”

Source: Bluebeard

“[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.”

Years Stories Action History Thousand Curiosity Dogma Magnificent Thousand Years

Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.”

Thinking Men World Years Believe Made Hell Pieces Four Evolution Thousand Years Ago Absolutes Mad Don't Believe Fishes Irrational Thousand Years Monkeys Garbage

Author:John Lennon

“No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.”

Ifs Years Different Matter Would Be Science Millions Scene Thousand Moon Hundred Years Ago Spots Different Things Thousand Years

Book:First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story

Source: First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story

“The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.”

Years Whole Universe Sides Sun Arms Thousand Moon Ten All Things Purity Thousand Years Sage Harmonious Disparity

Author:Zhuangzi

“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.”

Men Years Remember Three Thousand Thousand Years Destined

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.”

Needs Years Doe Two Helping Sun Thousand Praise Thousand Years

Author:Martin Van Creveld

“Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.”

Years Humans Earth Joy Asks Father Fear Four Bears Thousand Laughter Swear Thousand Years Terrified Ridicule Apes Polar Bears Laughter And Joy

Book:The Book of Everything

Source: The Book of Everything

“As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.”

“As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.”

Years Darkness Ignorance Thousand Ten Flash Thousand Years Lamps

Book:The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.”

“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.”

Years War Common Blood Pride Thousand Shapes Disease Gold Rings Lust Spite New Year Thousand Years Foul Civics Slander False Pride

Author:Alfred the Great

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