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“The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”

“We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.”

“The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.”

Men Years Humans Science Animal Race Millions Evolution Thousand Ten Human Race Accomplished Thousand Years Wild Animal

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.”

Writing Years Two Thousand Six Wine Drinking Thousand Years Drinking Wine

Author:Frank J. Prial

“I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.”

Ifs Years Spiritual Nations Leader Support Creation Divine Battle Thousand Unique Standing Fellows Fighter Thousand Years Assistants Support Me God Is With Us

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.”

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems

“Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?”

Ifs Life Years Moments Past Remember Three Loses Gone Forever Taken Thousand Creatures Thirty Present Moment Thousand Years Living Creatures

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.”

World Years Has Beens Hands This World Flower Thousand Rose Seeking Almighty Thousand Years Marvelous Autographs Almighty God Hieroglyphics

Book:The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Source: The Collected Works of ... P. ...

“Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.”

Life Years Stills Action Kindness Fate Thousand Goodness Thousand Years Elbows Goodness And Kindness

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.”

Years Has Beens Two Wisdom Life Is Christianity Advice Thousand Insight Thousand Years Dictionary

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?”

Years Mind Humans God Imagination Religious Four Thousand Patterns Theology Clock Dimensions Human Mind Makers Thousand Years My Imagination

Author:Albert Einstein

“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.”

Years Nations Forget Blood Thousand Europe Rivers Asking Thousand Years Feuds

Author:Winston Churchill

“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.”

Years States Age Simple Fate Middle Stupid Youth Thousand Silly Old Age Thousand Years Boon Vapid

Author:Carolyn Wells

“Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.”

“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

“Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.”

Men Life Years Moments Action Remember Three Loses Thousand Thirty Sole Thousand Years

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.”

“I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.”

“The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond.”

Years Humans Age Form Science History Thousand Six Spread Yesterday Passing Passings Portions Globes Thousand Years Human History Geology

Book:An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Source: An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

“Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.”

“If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.”

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.”

“Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to maintain to their dying whispers that Jesus is alive and is Lord. Two thousand years later, nothing less than the power of the risen Christ could inspire Christians around the world to remain faithful-despite prison, torture, and death.”

Men World Years Two Christian Jesus Christ Lord Alive Dying Inspire Thousand Prison Despite Around The World Faithful Experts Torture Thousand Years Easter Risen Cover Ups Watergate

Author:Charles Colson

“The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.”

Years Matter Whole Facts Earth Universe Taken Evolution Thousand Evidence Bases Notion Deny Teeth Fairy Thousand Years Tooth Fairy Scientific Evidence

Book:Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective

Source: Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective

“Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.”

Ifs Years Firsts Whole Moments Would Be Religion Perfect Practice Conditions Thousand Ten Revelations Thousand Years

Book:God and My Neighbour

Source: God and My Neighbour

“When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".”

Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human

“What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.”

People Ifs Giving Years Past Three Company Teacher Imagine Thousand Lucky Library Thousand Years Liberating Tense Humbling Present Tense Humbling Experiences

Author:Pete Hamill

“I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.”

Want Years Persons Wanted Mistake Drama Thousand Repeats Thousand Years Same Mistakes

Author:Kim Dong-joo

“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which its entire structure rested, namely, the geocentric system of the universe. ... the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, relegated to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind.”

“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"”

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.”

Years May Moments Depends Thousand Reputation Thousand Years Single Mom Kaizen

Author:Ernest Bramah

“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.”

Years May Said Book Seems Science Forever Study Land Thousand Approach Ancient Fascinating Thousand Years Egypt Diminish Destined Everlasting Novelty Descendants Old Books Old Places

Author:Amelia B. Edwards

“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”

“It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.”

Years Action Christian Religion Known Atheism Periods Terrible Civilization Thousand Europe Slave France Britain Thousand Years Spain Commentary Christian Faith Holland Portugal Raiding

Author:H. A. L. Fisher

“We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?”

“The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.”

“Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.”

Ifs Feels Years Sometimes Mother Four Fronts Thousand Daughter Oil Burned Thousand Years Dna Altered Deep Within Silencing

Author:Olympia Dukakis

“This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist”

Years Two Today Wonderful Thousand Years Ago Dear Flesh Thousand Years Sacraments Eucharist Dear Friend

Author:Pope John Paul II

“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”

Years Humans Jesus Enjoy Hours Thousand Glory Blessed Thousand Years Sacraments Blessed Sacrament Eucharistic Adoration

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.”

People Thinking Years Hate Thousand Bed I Hate Punishment Thousand Years Hate You I Hate You Tanning Tanning Beds

Author:Olivia Wilde

“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

“Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.”

Writing Trying Years Use Stuff Example Thousand Dialogue Crafts Swear Thousand Years Sour Short Time Timely Slang Swear Word

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.”

“When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.”

“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

“If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity”

Ifs Years Past Thousand Ten Mountain Bird Eternity Miles Worn Thousand Years Feathers Flew Fractions Granite

Author:Lois Duncan

“If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Two Past Next Environment Century Poet Goes On Thousand Singing Thousand Years

Author:Fred Bodsworth

“A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.”

Thinking World Years Ideas Millions Willing Thousand Billions Hinduism Biblical Thousand Years Millennium Hindu Religion Mayans

Author:Carl Sagan

“I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.”

Years Persons Long Whole Today Family Dying Thousand Long Time Died Apples Shade Thousand Years Offspring Sour Biting

Book:The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury

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