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“Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.”

Way Years Mean Today Silence Adventure Thousand Findings Years Ago Stillness Thousand Years

“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

“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."”

“When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.”

Knows Feels Years Mean Real Form Courses Water Doubt Five Nice Seeing Thousand Pure Years Ago Originals Dancing No Doubt Being Nice Thousand Years Krishna Flutes Chanting

Author:George Harrison

“The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.”

“There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.”

“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.'”

“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.”

Years Littles Government Political Three Politics Liberty Four Society Thousand Understood Years Ago Thousand Years Standstill

Author:John Adams

“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

“I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.”

People Years I Can Remember Strange Thousand Years Ago Curious Thousand Years

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

Years Night Time Four Thousand Years Ago Yesterday Texas Thousand Years Crete

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“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?”

“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”

World Years Has Beens Two Today Spiritual Culture Thousand Years Ago Goddess Thousand Years Live For Today Spiritual Power Gods And Goddesses

Author:Dan Brown

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Facts Doubt Worst Evolution Thousand Ten Years Ago Ignorant Biology Thousand Years Deluded Perversity

Book:The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”

Years Stills Two Might Nations Memories Race Class Happened Thousand Ten Years Ago Twenties Obligation Nonsense Thousand Years Absurdity No Memory

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Don’t you want Simi to be your family?...This is the part where you say, ‘Yes, Simi, I would like to be your family.’ ‘Cause if you don’t, then I’ll have to take my mitt back and barbecue you. Akri is still upset about the last Dark-Hunter I barbecued and that was…oh, a thousand or so years ago. He part elephant when it comes to remembering things. (Simi)”

Ifs Want Years Stills Lasts Remember Causes Dark Thousand Years Ago Upset Elephants Hunters Barbecue Dark Hunter

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”

Years Two Body My Own Blood Broken Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Author:Frederica Mathewes-Green

“Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.”

“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”

“Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.”

Thinking Knows Years Said I Can Know How Happened Stupid Thousand Years Ago Do You Know Thousand Years Laura Nodding Zombieland

Author:MaryJanice Davidson

“When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.”

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