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“You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.”

Knows Voice Thousand Dollars Dear Fifty Retorts

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.”

Ifs Men States Political Dies Politics Power Thousand Fifty

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.”

“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort... The need of work is in me.”

Men Needs Wells Young Birth Thousand Labor Cease France Young Man Fifty Idleness

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.”

People Persons Dream Left Thousand Hundred Fifty Pounds

Author:A. A. Milne

“Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.”

Men Way Differences Talent Products Thousand Men And Women Mark Wit Curious Fifty Toes Good Writers Fraternity Huffing

Author:Ben Hecht

“A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.”

Religious Food Couple Thousand Harmony Cooking Fifty Culinary Temper Sermons Promoters Methodists

Book:Cottage Economy

Source: Cottage Economy

“For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.”

Individual Imagine Thousand Late Fifty Too Late Exceptional

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

World Years Humans Heart Art Two Past Sacrifice Battle Thousand Skins Weight Victim Heavy Warrior Fifty Two Years Mexico Jaguars

Author:Biloine W. Young

“The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?”

Men Giving Life Is Education Five Teacher Development Thousand Hundred India Credit Fifty Great Men Salary Rupees

Author:Narendra Modi

“The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.”

People Men Lasts Forget Break Morning Thousand Letters Chains Fifty Lawns Forget You Discworld

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.”

Ifs Government Millions Thousand Dollars Billions Fifty Businessman Million Dollars Tycoons

Author:Sam Levenson

“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.”

Two Earth Remember Courses Heaven Millions Sun Five Theory Thousand Hundred Shadow Method Casts Mathematical Thirty Fifty Pace Inclination Employing

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"”

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

Years May Persons Made Three Thousand Ten Six Hundred Towns Enjoyment Contribution Fifty Fund Resolve New Year Small Town Happy New Year Funny Happy New Year

Author:Sydney Smith

“What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.”

Source: Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]

“One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.”

Want Two Book Thousand Hundred Clubs Fifty Old Lady Book Club

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.”

Giving Years Self Pleasure Thousand Skills Profession Self Confidence Fifty Links Thousand Years Theatrical

Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.”

Today Evil Race Millions Rich Wise Sea Mankind Produce Serious Thousand Hundred Dollars Charity Obstacles Improvement Nine Cures Fifty Thrown Being Wise Unworthy

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“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

“On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.”

“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

“I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"”

Firsts Mean Littles Doe Guy Numbers Thousand Hundred Iraq Nine Hey Usa Just One Fifty Tape Seventies Parades Casualties Discrepancies

Author:Bill Hicks

“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.”

People Ifs Men Realizing Poor Levels Cities Consciousness Saws Week Streets New York Thousand Appreciate Population Fifty Covered Homeless Businessman Poorest Posters Landlord Covered Up

Author:Eric Drooker

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.”

Giving Two Fun Sports Too Much Easier Promise Thousand Bed Giving Up Hundred Baseball Dollars Drinking Fifty Too Much Fun

Author:Babe Ruth

“Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.”

Ifs Made Names Sports Church Records Thousand Surrender Fifty

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.”

People Has Beens States Five Thousand Police South Miles Borders Fifty Officers Mexico Police Officer Arizona Spilling

Author:Jan Brewer

“I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.”

Should Eye Dying Thousand Size Gentleman Fifty Pairs Take Me Unusual Like Something Dens Fireplaces

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”

Thinking Knows Persons Said Bigs Games Language Perfect Four Taught Brother Thousand Appreciate Hot Bounds Tricks Saving Fifty Iron Get Away Cheer Knives Our Love Bugs Spectators Locke Lamora

Author:Scott Lynch

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”

Ifs Fighting Winning Left Thousand Eight Realms Opponents Fifty Pounds Combat Toms Cartoon Propositions Jerry Dubious Tom And Jerry

Book:Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)”

“After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.”

Source: Where the Red Fern Grows

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