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“I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Years Four Thousand Years Ago Nuclear Code Thousand Years Dinosaurs Palin

Author:Matt Damon

“Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.”

Years Remember Speak Victory Thousand Germany Awe Thousand Years Seals Stalingrad

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.”

“You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.”

Men Years Firsts Long Views Effects Thousand Impact Commandments Thousand Years Definite Moses Cannibalism Boulders Sinai

Author:I. F. Stone

“I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.”

Thinking World Years Past Thousand Ideology Thousand Years Lenses Over The Past Poisonous

Author:Terence McKenna

“We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.”

Years Has Beens Style Thousand Seven Thousand Years Heirs

Author:Terence McKenna

“The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.”

Years Mind Humans Technology Conditions Thousand Years Ago Print Human Mind Fifteen Thousand Years Lifting Sensory Ratios

Author:Terence McKenna

“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.”

“But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.”

“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.”

“We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.”

Years Mind Humans Reality Fall Language Social Fields Materials Thousand Ten Machines Fruit Fifty Engineering Thousand Years Ecology Lap Sowing

Author:Terence McKenna

“Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.”

People Years Thousand Areas My Family Noble Thousand Years Knights Naples

Author:Paul Sorvino

“Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?”

Men Years Happens Term Plans Tomorrow Thousand Affair Thousand Years Incapable Short Term

Book:The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”

“If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?”

“Two seconds are a thousand years.”

Years Two Thousand Seconds Thousand Years

Book:Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait

Source: Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait

“Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.”

Thinking Men Years Feelings Care White Land Thousand Celebrate Native Native American Thousand Years White Man Columbus Columbus Day

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Two Earth Jesus Christ Christianity Divine Thousand Jesus Christ Years Ago Deeper Thousand Years Thinking Man

Book:An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

Source: An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

“As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.”

Years Mean Two Political Moral Thousand Years Ago Ethical Thousand Years Plato

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.”

Men Giving Should Years Looks Stills Faces Names Causes Kings Thousand Years Ago Dare China Remembered Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm II

“I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.”

Thinking Years Book Lasts Religious Produce Thousand Thousand Years Topics Chewing Religious Experience

Author:Reza Aslan

“Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.”

Years Two Christian Past Names Causes Church Movement Bears Thousand Years Ago Institutions Thousand Years Revolt

Book:Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

“The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.”

Men World Years Persons Causes Poor Thousand Six Died Thousand Years

Book:As You Like it

Source: As You Like it

“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”

People Years Different Spirit Jesus Existence Four Periods Holy Thousand Hundred Holy Spirit Appropriate Spokes Dozen Mary Thousand Years Different Peoples

Author:Andrew Wommack

“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.”

Thinking Years Body Father Understanding Effects Fine Thousand Musician Years Ago Available Tone Mathematician Thousand Years Parts Of The Body

Author:Paul Horn

“Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.”

Should Years Art Two Real Values Answers Taught Thousand Paper Years Ago Gold Consistent Works Of Art Thousand Years Estates Criteria Convenient Wheat Taught Us

Author:Doug Casey

“I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.”

World Way Want Years Understanding Thousand Hundred Species Thousand Years Granddaughter Good Understanding

Author:Sidney Poitier

“We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.”

Source: A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land

“LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.”

People World Years Might Found Sound Interest Cities Happened Havens Thousand Western Bones Mess Los Angeles Thousand Years Heresy Living On Western World Crumbling Reinventing

Author:Moby

“I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.”

People Years Enemy Thousand Committed Israel East All Time Empires Genocide Thousand Years Atrocities

Author:Kola Boof

“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.”

“I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they are going to get along. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I know enough about this, having been there, that these are sophisticated people. It's not like in Pakistan, where people have been told about Jews for a thousand years but don't know any. The Palestinians know the Jews.”

People Knows Want Years Believe Has Beens Country Enough I Believe Sound Thousand Jew Palestinian Sophisticated Thousand Years Unbelievable Pakistan

Author:Russ Feingold

“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.”

Years Humans Lines Human Beings Records Written Changed Revolution Couple Thousand Computer Draws Hundred Speed Decades Thousand Years Scientific Revolution

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.”

Needs Years Humans Real Might Age Able Walks Technology Produce Products Thousand Stones Machines Atmosphere Thousand Years Robots Scenarios Turning Points Stone Age

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.”

Years Stills Reality Culture Left Consciousness Havens Thousand Years Ago Scientist Stakes Burned Thousand Years Fringe

Author:David O. Russell

“Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.”

Years Two Ends Christian Thousand Claims Jew Thousand Years End Times

Author:Tom Robbins

“The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.”

Years Humans Has Beens Shows Lasts Courses Thousand Ten Evidence Climate Stable Thousand Years Human History Ups & Downs

Author:Sylvia Earle

“We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.”

Want Years Believe Done Past Worry Thousand Consequence Thousand Years Coming Back

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.”

Years Two Law Three Planets Thousand Normal Happenings Hundred Years Ago New Things Thousand Years Normal Things

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.”

Trying Years Mind Dream Clear Thousand Ten Thousand Years Follow Your Dreams Clear Minds

Author:Seungsahn

“Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.”

Way Years Mean Today Silence Adventure Thousand Findings Years Ago Stillness Thousand Years

Author:Pico Iyer

“You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.”

“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.”

Thinking Years Littles Helping Christian Hours Half Comedy Couple Thousand Racism Ethics Notion Silly Thousand Years Erase Half Hours Hanging Around Christian Ethics

Author:Norman Lear

“Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Three Language Goes On Thousand Ancient Greek Latin Thousand Years Latino Hebrew Yiddish

Author:Amos Oz

“Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.”

Years Two Age Form Modern Middle Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Middle Ages Hebrew

Author:Amos Oz

“We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.”

Years Found Interesting Mankind Thousand Scientist Critical Phrases Thousand Years Entering Very Interesting Calculations

Author:Werner Herzog

“Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.”

Years Humans Human Beings Painting Thousand Hundred Wander Hunting Thousand Years Caves Gathering Multiplying Wandering Around

Author:Howard Rheingold

“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!”

Years Firsts Mean Reality Humanity Three Found Principles Five Objects Planets Thousand Computer Thirds Weight Population Experts Bombs Digital Thousand Years Demographics Atomic Bomb

Author:Paul Virilio