Thousand Quotes - Page 13

• You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

  Denis Waitley

  Class, Secret, Use

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• If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wise, Cousin, Brother

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• That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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• I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Kneeling, Firsts

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• Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.

  Ted Cruz

  Wise, Math, People

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• Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Islamic, Two, People

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• I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

  Hannah Hart

  Holiday, Excited, My Favorite

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Projects, Eleven, Pops

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.

  Dan Chaon

  Book, Years, Pieces

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Lying, Responsibility, Past

  "We Are Determined". Interview with Stefan Aust, Gerhard Sporl and Dieter Bednarz in Tehran, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• Love is a thousand things, but at the center is a choice.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Love Is, Choices

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.34, Penguin

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• When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  College, People, World

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• Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.

  John Kiriakou

  Believe, Names, Government

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• The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.

  Burton Watson

  Kings, Government, People

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.92, Columbia University Press

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• It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Mutation, Generations

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• There are a thousand no's for every yes.

  Jonathan Ive

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• A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Devil, Defeat

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• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

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• If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ideas, Looking Good, Ten

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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• We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Drama, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Years

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• I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Pigs, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Checks, Mass

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• Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Rude, Peaceful

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