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We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. Bush

Light, Stars, Nation

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker

Men, Individual, Activity

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
Anne Lamott

Others, Lives, Moments

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Christopher Marlowe

Face, Ships, Burnt

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. Bush

Forward, Moving, America

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday

Nothing, Times, Church

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?
Jacques Plante

Job, Working, Light

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.
Miley Cyrus

Telling, Easier

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering

Few, Ten, Composer

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

Good, Ideas, Satisfied

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Family, Alone

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
David Eagleman

Single, Brain, Stars

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig

Food, Give, Restaurant

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Ernest Bramah

Single, May, Moment

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
John Archibald Wheeler

Hot, Event, Remains

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover

Science, Adventure, Create

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
Shinichi Suzuki

Knowledge, Times, Ten

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Deceitful

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.
Samuel Richardson

Love, May, Happen

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer

Worth, Insults, Graceful

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
Jesse Jackson

Black, Problem, Show

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
Nia Vardalos

Between, Lose, Year

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

Giving, Same, Away

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
Buddy Rich

Done, Through, Play

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry Adams

Read, Whether, Influence

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson

Good, Find, Reasons

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

America, Year, Five

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins

Human, Fact, Force

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
David Hilbert

After, Question, Hypothesis

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.
Dan Brown

Women, Power, Today

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