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“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.”

Men Should Problem Hands Able Understanding Struggle Involved Thousand Members Average Eight Practicals Factors Membership Fraternity Alphas

Author:Jewel

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

People Ifs Should Years Enough Kids School Jobs Company Five Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Be Good Thirty Forty Good Enough

Author:Steve Jobs

“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”

Should Years Humans Form Order Thousand Ten Human Life Forty Thousand Years Deviate

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”

People Ifs Should Government Purpose Millions Thousand Hundred Function Employment Appropriate Forty Employed

Author:James A. Garfield

“One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.”

Should Philosophy Quality Novel Five Thousand Hundred Should Have Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”

Should Moving Song Sides Building Thousand Singing Hundred Died Dancing Nighttime Singing And Dancing

Author:Ryan Adams

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.”

Ifs Needs Should Enough Use Thousand Lucky Hundred Accounts Dollars Sufficient Bank Accounts Personal Needs

Author:Richard Branson

“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.”

Should Mind Long Order Names Memories Results Numbers Alive Produce Thousand Method Isolated Incidents Our Memories

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Self Done Feelings Remember Values Asks Proud Thousand Hundred Ashamed Proud Of Myself

Author:John S. Hall

“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)

“If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Sports Differences Millions Teacher Car Buddhism Thousand Ten Girlfriend Making A Difference Rama Flashy Sports Cars

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.”

Should Process Thousand Taxes Pages Passing Passings Reform Code Manipulation Amendments Legislation Paradigm Irs Tax Reform

Author:Jim Bridenstine

“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

“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”

Thinking Should Years Bigs Five Thousand Hundred Dollars Five Years

Author:Dion DiMucci

“No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.”

Ifs Way Should Years Believe Mean Children Given Thousand Simplicity Scripture Lions Thousand Years

Author:M. R. DeHaan

“The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?”

Should Years Has Beens Art Two Century Thousand Waste Entertainment Should I Thousand Years Publicity

Author:Cecil B. DeMille

“Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.”

Thinking World Should Writing Believe Book Ideas Individual Religious Atheism Thousand Ten Dear Positive Atheism Publishing Reformation Sects Religious Sects

Book:Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

Source: Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?”

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.”

Should Wells Kind May Mean Seems Political Used Certain Speak Company Ought Thousand Conversation Difficulty Entertainment Occasions Ministers Remove Exposed Jargon All Occasions

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!”

Ifs Thinking Should God Truth Lying Known Laughing Sun Thousand Ocean Mouths Brilliant Tiny Opening

Author:Hafez

“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

“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

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.”

Ifs Should Years Stills Moments Voice Wise Changed Thousand Our Time Thousand Years Day To Day Carpe Diem Being Wise Morrow Carpe Small Voice

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

“Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.”

Should Firsts Mean Asks Prayer Answers Thousand Thirds Overcoming Temptation Ask Me Repeats

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.”

Men Should Has Beens Made Cases Thousand Should Have Harm Loyalty Tricks Rebellion Throwing Loyal Should Have Been Deceptive Yoke Iniquity

Author:Mark Twain

“If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.”

Ifs Should Writing Years Long Two Used Lying Thousand Articles Thousand Years Obliged Inventing Jewish Faith

Author:Martin Luther

“Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.”

Giving Should Littles Brain Thousand Six Dollars Investing Breasts Surgeons

Author:Mike Royko

“Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right.”

Should Play Thousand Private Parts

Author:Barbara Graham

“Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.”

Ifs Should Believe May Government Found Names Sides Millions Cases Security Crime Thousand Torture Working It Acceptable National Security Unspeakable Efficacy Abhorrent

Author:John Kiriakou

“Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.”

Should Heart Children Lying Thousand Ignorant

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.”

People Should Years Plans Thousand Prepared Ships Tonight Abandon Thousand Years Be Prepared Voyages

Author:Joseph Bayly

“We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.”

Should Years Believe Children Class Modern Danger Citizens Thousand Organization Thirds Als Thousand Years Isis Sexually Modern Society

Author:Bernie Sanders

“After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.”

Should Made Done Language My Own Known Thousand Gods Will Request Thy Will Be Done

Book:Prevailing Prayer

Source: Prevailing Prayer

“Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.”

“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

“How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.”

World Should Language Sea Thousand Islands Savages Fog Living On North Sea

Author:Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

“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

“If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.”

Ifs Men Should Would Be Greater Victory Battle Thousand Oneself Conquer

Author:Gautama Buddha

“They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.”

Should Made Two Grows Poor Rich Four Thousand Should Have Twenties Dollars Profit Conservatism Bulls Bull Markets

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“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

“The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014... I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.”

Should States Found Effort Groups Thousand Evidence Add Clinton Related Mail Secretary Fbi Work Related

Author:James Comey

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Humor Funny Five Comedy Cost Thousand Gun Dollars Innocent Innocence Bullets Gun Control Bystanders Dodging Bullets

Author:Chris Rock

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”

People Should Years Book Ends Stories Three Education Written Week College Thousand Library Programming Educate No Money Public Library

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act - to Weave - was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.”

Thinking Men Should Stories Particular Thousand Army Patterns Appreciation Aesthetic Disagreement Dandelions Weavers

Author:China Mieville

“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.”

Knows Love Should Years Said Today Flower Thousand Ten Hundred Thousand Years

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin