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“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.”

Ifs Persons Matter Happens Lasts Teacher Thousand Enlightenment Lifetime Complicated Things To Do Enlightened Boots Complicated Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

Long Said Ends Whole Home Dream Wanted Lasts Found Strong Heaven Water Break Thousand Tables Bounds Rounds Whole Life Peaceful Fancy Flood Homeless Vessel Long Life Roaming

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.”

Years Two Lasts Keys Thousand Missionary Ministry Thousand Years Flexibility

Book:For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel

Source: For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

Ifs Years Humans Stills Might Lasts Humanity Race Wise Baby Thousand Eating Hundred Human Race Get Better Thousand Years Cerebral Getting Started

Book:A Dangerous Age: A Novel

Source: A Dangerous Age: A Novel

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Dream Lasts Teach Four Lessons Thousand Activity Judgment Operations Thousand Years Tribes Suspended Dormant

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.”

Men Feelings Lasts Opinion Thousand Degrees Phrases Epithet

Book:Among My Books: First [-second] series

Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series

“Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.”

Years Two Christian Lasts Thousand Guilt Invention Thousand Years

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media.”

Years Soul Lasts Law Natural Levels Technology Media Communication Thousand Medicine Ancient Coming Back Affinity Electronics Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean I Can Play Character Use Reality Age Lasts Film Memories Written Events Strange Thousand Ten Theater Legs Broke Palimpsest

Author:Gore Vidal

“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)

“Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.”

Knows Giving Real Lasts Speak Half Destiny Blood Thousand Mountain Swear Veins Folds Speak The Truth

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.”

Men Years Mind Lasts Darkness Planets Thousand Ten Productions Spread Fifteen Thousand Years Artifacts

Author:Terence McKenna

“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

“Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay.”

Men Should Years Mind Believe Soul Dream Lasts Spirit Dies Three Imagination Century Sweet Hair Thousand Fancy Thousand Years Severe Egypt Bricks Clay Milton Airy

Author:Bryan Procter

“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.”

Ifs Want Years Real Ends Seems Lasts Dies Views Race Blood Feet Strength Periods Thousand My Friends Let Me Dare Thousand Years Crawling

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.”

Thinking Years May Important Lasts Thousand Lifetime Thousand Years

Author:George Lucas

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”

“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.”

Men Trying Years Believe Stills Two Lasts I Believe History Havens Changed Thousand Consequence Triumph Spite Thousand Years

Book:Civilization

Source: Civilization

“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”

Firsts Lasts Death Gone Dying Youth Hair Thousand Died Graves Teeth Dust Odd

Author:Lord Byron

“Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.”

Years Lasts Enemy Trouble Horror Thousand Yeah Certainty Thousand Years Inquisition Mao

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.”

Needs Years Humans Heart Art Stills Two Lasts Humanity Courses Stuff Can Do Changed Drama Thousand Core Greek Thousand Years Human Experience New Stuff Old Greek Greek Drama

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.”

Ifs Lasts Steps Journey Thousand Miles Thousand Miles Single Step Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Author:Laozi

“I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.”

Lasts Wonder Car Thousand Resources Seven Winter Miles Lovely Blocked Thousand Miles Inexpensive

Book:Conversations with Jim Harrison

Source: Conversations with Jim Harrison

“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.”

“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.”

Ifs Knows Stills Might Jobs Lasts Causes Records Happened Months Thousand Six Program Tragedy Congress Phones Terrorist Data France Paris Collections Senators Six Months Ongoing Folds Collecting

Author:Rand Paul

“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'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

“We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.”

People Years Body Happens Lasts America Thousand Punishment Iran Last Year Capital Punishment Legal System Hanging On Cranes

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“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

“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.”

Thinking Hands Lasts Christ Hours Team Feet Example Painting Flower Thousand Hundred Eight Statements Massive Identical Tombs Sweeping Exhibitions

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“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

“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”

People Years Lasts Thousand Thousand Years Mischievous

Author:Dalai Lama

“For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.”

Years Lasts Voice Rooms Virtue Century Fields Calling Thousand Approach Vote Finals Thousand Years Frontiers Succession Meekness Playing Fields Stuttering

Author:Stacy Schiff

“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

Years Two Lasts Technology Truth Is Thousand Opposites Increase Thirty Advancement Corny Thirty Years Commentary Advanced Technology

Author:Niels Bohr

“The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.”

World Years Ideas Reason Christian Lasts Powerful Grace Thousand Most Powerful Thousand Years

Author:Bono

“But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.”

Ifs Years May Persons Said Stills Body Hands Lasts Used Lost Grows My Own Known Hair Grew Thousand Conscious Hundred Doctors Importance Cells Thousand Years Unlimited Foreheads Teddy

Author:J. D. Salinger

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

World Persons Lasts Mother Thousand Consequence Leaving Companion Guardian Splendid

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.”

Together Lasts Thousand Dear Last Time

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?”

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.”

People Men Kind Two Lasts Views Four Thousand Ten Ordinary Conclusion Towers

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”

People Heart Lasts Waiting Half Dying Position Thousand Stranger Lists Loved Ones Organs Eighty Surgeons Sixteen Heartless Liver Kidneys Scalpels Cadavers

Author:Mary Roach

“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

“The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.”

Hands Lasts Faces Girl Courses Grows Doors Expression Baby Thousand Fruit Warrior Kicks Flats Warmth January Kiwi

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.”

Knows Stories Lasts Thousand Trails Skulls

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Two Ends Done Would Be Today Lasts Jesus Church Thousand Spokes Jail Thousand Years Framed

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.”

Knows Needs Years Wells Book Sometimes Facts Hands Lasts Beautiful Differences Attitude Study Environment Magic Building Thousand Ancient Wave Cease Surroundings Neglected

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

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