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Source: An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

“As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.”

Years Mean Two Political Moral Thousand Years Ago Ethical Thousand Years Plato

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.”

Years Two Christian Past Names Causes Church Movement Bears Thousand Years Ago Institutions Thousand Years Revolt

Book:Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within

“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

“With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.”

World Two Dream Eye Night Passion Language Teacher Thousand Intuition Allies Fluent The Wild Nature Starry Night Wild Women

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.”

Ifs Two Country Christian Can Do Hell Fire Thousand Revenge Fighter Destroying Hunting Bloody Discounts Mayhem Two Countries Hezbollah Shia

Author:Michael Totten

“There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.”

Way Two War Ends Stories Faces Guy Girl Horror Thousand Distance Staring Your Face Yards Two Ways Gore Horror Of War

Book:Redeployment

Source: Redeployment

“I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.”

Knows Two Book Next Novel Written Thousand

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.”

Years Two Ends Christian Thousand Claims Jew Thousand Years End Times

Author:Tom Robbins

“What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.”

Ifs Firsts Two Guy Girl Fiction Thousand Stranger Miles Odds Lectures Frogs Synchronicity Esoteric Thousand Miles First Date Miles Apart

Author:Tom Robbins

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.”

Knows Writing Has Beens Stills Two Book Thousand Pages Seven

Author:William Golding

“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.”

Years Two Law Three Planets Thousand Normal Happenings Hundred Years Ago New Things Thousand Years Normal Things

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.”

Years Two Age Form Modern Middle Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Middle Ages Hebrew

Author:Amos Oz

“We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Syria as the means of addressing ISIS and the crisis in Syria.”

Want Mean Two War Air Right Now Thousand Weapons Crisis Clinton Nuclear Russia Nuclear Weapons Syria Triggers Isis

Author:Jill Stein

“In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?”

People Two Wanted Thousand Majority Debate Polls

Author:Ralph Nader

“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."”

“A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.”

Writing Years May Two Ends Might Novel Five Couple Thousand Dollars Manage Five Years

Author:Mordecai Richler

“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”

“LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".”

“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”

World Way Heart Two Body Eye Mines My Heart Fit Thousand Hundred Beloved Needles Through The Eyes Kernel

Book:The Pocket Rumi

Source: The Pocket Rumi

“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

“Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.”

Two Country Fine Thousand Taxes Pages Obamacare Mandates Fees Free Country

Author:Paul Ryan

“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.”

Ifs Two Might Literature Written Thousand Ten Paid Rate Newspapers Commandments Moses Ten Commandments

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

“What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.”

Years Two Hands Power Too Much Thousand Genocide Thousand Years Darfur Too Much Power

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”

People Mind Two Faces Thousand Twenties Adversity Busy Christmas Torment Santa Merry Twenty Two Funny Merry Christmas Busy Day

Author:David Sedaris

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.”

People Trying May Said Two Self Communication Thousand Conscious Communicate

Author:Virginia Woolf

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”

People Two Food Thousand Cooking Culinary Vegetarian Vegetarianism Vegetarian Food Celery

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.”

Giving Years Two Facts Asks Answers Practice Laughing Tree Thousand Resurrection Inches Approval Joyful Thousand Years

Author:Wendell Berry

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”

May Two Four Thousand Isolation Allies Mathematician Abyss Conceded

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”

Wells Made Two Three Thousand Essentials Mere Echoes Imitation Repetition Unforgettable

Author:Milan Kundera

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals, They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face”

People Ifs Should Two Faces Individual Thousand Sitting Stranger Miles Despite Destined Absent Face To Face Thousand Miles Miles Apart

Author:Adeline Yen Mah

“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

“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”

People Years Made Two Left Half Thousand Left Handed

Book:The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Source: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“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

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