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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Life, Happiness, Single

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Giving, Done, Smoking

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Live, Die, Others

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

Lived, Smell, Miles

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

Power, Justice, Political

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

End, Remember, Lives

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Night, Worry

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

Success, Graduation, Students

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Love, Silence, Words

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
Barack Obama

Time, Single, Seen

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
Harriet Tubman

Convinced, Slaves, Freed

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Men, Give, Married

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
Michael Jackson

Children, Kids, Cancer

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Change, Everything, Same

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.
Mitt Romney

Keep, Move, Economy

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle

Rich, Days, Three

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
Billy Graham

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'
Hillary Clinton

Home, Others, Put

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

Truth, Liar, Single

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
Harvey Fierstein

Wrong, Few, Save

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, Fire

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

Politics, Serious, Begin

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell

Friends, Rather, Few

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Words, Down, Wish

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns

Makes, Mourn, Inhumanity

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler

Once, Few, Since

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis

Women, Men, Crazy

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave Barry

Travel, Rain, Against

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

Time, Future, Human

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