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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Love, Flower, Years

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• In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

  Marguerite Duras

  Ignorance, Years, World

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• I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Girl, Order, Years

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.354, Penguin

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• O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Believe, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament (O How All Things Are Far Removed)”

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• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Power, Hands, Years

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• Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Lasts

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• You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Teaching, Numbers

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• 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.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Years, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

  Will Durant

  Time, Years, Twenties

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Years, Scare

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• 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

  Spiritual, Years, Two

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Son, Land, Names

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

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• Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Printing, Century

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Voice, Finals

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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, People, Strange

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Ideas, Modern

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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Technology, Years, Machines

  1880 TheWanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 278.

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• The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

  Bono

  Christian, Powerful, Ideas

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