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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner
Human Being
World
Thousand
Finer
Ten
Noble
Well
Than
Human
Being
Rear
Bring
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
Olympia Dukakis
Me
Women
Fear
Sometimes
Thousand
Thousand Years
Silencing
Daughters
Feel
Altered
Within
Were
Years
Imprinted
Front
Oil
Burned
Who
Deep
Four
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
Orson Pratt
God
Government
Rights
Men
Own
Thousand
Thousand Years
Laws
Various
His
Years
Times
Authority
Establish
Children
Asserted
Among
Four
Last
In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young
Vegetables
Nuts
Hunt
Thousand
Thousand Years
Eat
More
Foods
Could
Menu
Take
Stick
How
Years
Years Ago
Off
Fruits
Processed
Less
Theory
Meat
Lived
Things
Gather
You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
Pat Meehan
You
Bit
OK
Thousand
Rather
Well
Than
Trying
Manageable
Just
Just A Little Bit
Little
Little Bit
Things
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People
Down
Books
Those
Thousand
Some
Online
Having
Most
Obviously
Make
Make A Difference
Sort
Makes
Blog
Sales
Sell
Author
Moderately
Just
Difference
Public
Modest
Popular
Even
Profile
Level
Presence
Copies
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
Paul Feig
You
Jokes
Batting
Thousand
Percent
Never
Going
Just
Happen
Average
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
Paul Scofield
Life
Hope
You
Meaning Of Life
Thousand
Dollars
Question
Meaning
Meaning Of
Asking
Everyone needs all the awareness of sarcoma they can get. Twelve thousand people get diagnosed a year. That's too many. One percent of cancers are sarcomas, and about 15% of pediatric cancers are sarcomas.
Peri Gilpin
Needs
People
Year
Awareness
Too
Everyone
Thousand
One Percent
About
Percent
Diagnosed
Get
Cancers
Many
Twelve
My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet, when I graduated in 2000, I had yet to encounter a single openly LGBT student there.
Pete Buttigieg
Gay
School
Single
Lesbian
Bend
Several
High
Thousand
High School
Student
Students
Had
Openly
Were
Encounter
South
Graduated
Means
Nearly
Dozen
In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.
Peter Bergen
Men
Power
Final
Thousand
City
More
More Or Less
Remain
Facto
Had
Column
Advancing
Toward
Taliban
Been
Southern
Afghanistan
Moved
Against
Capital
Less
Team
Play
Units
'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.
Peter Dinklage
Me
Game
People
Fans
Nice
Thousand
Gives
Coming
Game Of Thrones
Nice People
Nicest
Nicest People
Ever
I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.
Peter Falk
Morning
You
Water
Thought
First
Saw
Thousand
Thousand Years
Never
Put
Beverly
Beverly Hills
Drugstore
Hills
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Been
Years
Up
Get
Pack
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day.
Peter Heller
Day
Words
Thought
Thousand
Thousand Words
Easy
Scene
Write
Pick
Makes
Always
Up
Stop
Middle
Next
We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
Peter Marino
Plants
Thousand
Purple
Supposed
House
Were
Pink
Handful
Them
Turning
Keep
During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it.
Peter Navarro
You
People
Few
Keep Moving
Seconds
Spend
Hundred
Trick
Thousand
See
Shake
More
Only
Also
Doing
Campaign
Than
Hands
Anyone
Moving
Keep
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.
Peter York
Soul
People
Other
Types
Hundred
Worrying
Several
Consolidated
Thousand
Immortal
About
Lifestyle
Retailing
Idea
Readily
Because
Anticipated
Quite
Anyone
Deepest
I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.
Philip Green
Life
My Life
Live
Meeting
Meetings
Spend
Hundred
Thousand
About
Having
Could
Like
Another
How
Queue
Get
Want
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Philip Massinger
Life
Death
Doors
Out
Thousand
Find
Hath
Shall
The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.
Preneet Kaur
Several
Thousand
Total
Voters
Might
Bogus
You can work out until you're blue in the face and run a thousand miles a week, but none of it will matter if you aren't eating well.
Rachel Hollis
Work
You
Matter
Will
Face
Out
Run
Thousand
Thousand Miles
Eating
Week
Until
Well
None
Blue
Work Out
Miles
Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
Rafael Palmeiro
Game
Three
Thousand
Just
Number
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram
Education
Democracy
History
Science
Wealth
Christianity
Vain
Preserved
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Cumulative
Repetition
Us
Inheritance
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay
God
Women
Natural
Law
Men
Men And Women
Few
Holding
Energy
Everything
Out
Has-Been
Thousand
Must
Thousand Years
Disturbance
Wiped
Masculine
Feel
Between
Name
Balanced
Feminine
Been
Years
Up
Subservient
Done
Really
Next
Painful
Things
Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!
Reggie Jackson
Best
Me
You
Game
Age
Damn
Hundred
Tell
Thousand
About
He
Put
Come
Because
Got
How
Making
Lee
Same
Same Age
May
Paid
Meat
Why
Seats
Player
Two
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout
Wonderful
Thousand
Effort
Shrewd
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