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“I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.”

“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

“When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none.”

Firsts States Political Speak Cities Known Democracy Rights Modern Citizens Thousand Concepts Slave Western Definitions Territory Greece Prerogative Political Rights

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.”

Years Firsts Names Known Land Son Thousand Years Ago Israel Hills Thousand Years Jacob

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.”

Firsts May States Happens Thousand And Love Affection Mutual Shocking Assertion Tolerable

Book:Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life

Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Politics President Change Courage Planets Thousand Hundred Lifetime Finished Presidential New Beginnings Foresight New Year New Start

Author:John F. Kennedy

“You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.”

Knows Firsts Enough Millions Thousand Hundred Nine Ninety No Point Ninety Nine One In A Million

Book:Charms for the Easy Life

Source: Charms for the Easy Life

“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”

People Firsts Long Hands Thousand Prison Incredibles Curious Awful Streams Knives Locked Outsiders Coincidence Locked Up Inmates

Author:Alan Alda

“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.”

Years Firsts Humans Wells Two Lasts Century Morality Thousand Conversation Argument Twenties Philosophical Insight Well Being Thousand Years Discourse

Author:Sam Harris

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Two Done Today Turns Chance Known Steps Forever Heard Return Battle Thousand Shots Dignity Soldier Command First Steps Thousand Years Statues Turning Points

Author:Leon Uris

“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

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.”

“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

“Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!”

Firsts Mother Thousand Grateful Amendments Guardian Librarian First Amendment I Am Grateful Barricades

Author:Michael Moore

“I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don’t play that game anymore. It’s for kids." "It’s got four thousand attack power," I coaxed. "Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first." I smiled. "Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid once in a while.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Stills Play Kids Lasts Games Five Four Thousand Okay Winter Opponents Camps Abandoned Statues Hades

Author:Rick Riordan

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

People Knows Firsts Looks Persons Eye Past Walks Thousand Thirty Glances First Person

Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“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

“Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.”

Years Firsts Littles Lasts Girl Thousand Thousand Years Amy Iowa Harper Firsts And Lasts

Book:The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Two Dies Deals Thousand Intelligent Brave Coward Farewell To Arms

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.”

Should Years Firsts Said Home Wanted Waiting Memories Walks Deals Doors Middle Fronts Mets Thousand Mouths Corners Dinner Holiday Glimpse Amusement Bulls Every Second Front Doors Brash

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Heart Persons Remember Romance Night Courses Wish Imagination Missing Return Lovers Thousand Married Filled Stranger Existentialism Dozen Constructs Fragments Rapture

Author:Andrew Sean Greer

“when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.”

Want Needs Firsts Dream Able Lasts Night Wind Taste Thousand Obstacles Tongue What You Want Miles Block Shakes Convince Crave Want Something Hurdle Bruised Thousand Miles Where You Stand

Author:Jodi Picoult

“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.”

Firsts Looks Long Stills I Can Different Remember Night Imagine Sky Dog Arms Thousand Shapes Moon Hundred Circles Flats All Night Bosoms Thighs Vistas

Book:The Complete Cosmicomics

Source: The Complete Cosmicomics

“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.”

Giving Writing Firsts Mean Speak Lines Sea Possibility Thousand Limits Giving Up

Author:Stanislaw Lem

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