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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.
by Henry A. Wallace (Vice President, American , born in 1888) keywords: deceitful, definition, hundred, include, money, narrow, only, power, probably, ruthless, search, several, their, those , thousand I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: even, found, go, hours, juvenile, miles, necessary, never, search, themes , thousand The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: interested, life, profoundly, secret, thing, things, thousand, well , whole No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
by Charles Dudley Warner (Journalist, American , born in 1829) keywords: bit, call, deep, feels, four, ground, handsome, his, however, man, miles, more, own, property, small, surface, thousand, very , world I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
by Lew Wasserman (Producer, American , born in 1913) keywords: active, around, become, being, candidates, concern, few, hundred, industry, membership, our, primary, states, talking, think, thousand, united , work I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
by Duke of Wellington (Royalty, British , born in 1769) keywords: difference, field, forty, his, made, men, napoleon, presence, say, thousand , used Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
by Carolyn Wells (Author, American , born in 1862) keywords: age, beg, boon, fate, fears, ills, life, middle, old, rife, silly, simple, state, thousand, vapid, years , youth 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?
by Walt Whitman (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: far, goes, heard, middling, said, several, thousand, universe, well , years What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
by Simon Wiesenthal (Activist, Austrian , born in 1908) keywords: connects, few, genocide, hands, much, power, thousand, too, two , years An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
by Billy Wilder (Director, American , born in 1906) keywords: audience, critical, dark, genius, imbecile, imbeciles, individual, may, member, never, thousand, together , wrong The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
by Kit Williams (Author) keywords: built, chariot, collector, home, knowing, last, least, new, pleasure, private, purchased, take, thousand, took, years , york The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
by Walter Jon Williams (Writer, American , born in 1953) keywords: manuscript, over, pages, rift, thousand, took, two, well, which , years They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
by William John Wills (Scientist, English , born in 1834) keywords: continent, expedition, exploration, fitting, fund, here, interior, just, march, next, our, out, pounds, probably, raising, start, subscription, succeeded, thousand, towards, two, wanted , will If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: ago, back, chaos, collapse, disappear, environment, equilibrium, existed, insects, into, mankind, rich, state, ten, thousand, vanish, were, world, would , years One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: cool, counsels, hasty, heat, judgment, light, supply, thing, thousand , worth Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
by Isaac Mayer Wise (Clergyman, American , born in 1819) keywords: ages, ago, been, being, civilization, difficulties, disturbed, great, had, hebrews, imposed, middle, more, now, problems, progress, solved, spirit, their, thousand, under, which, would , years For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: alone, body, both, combination, harley, mind, slave, specialist, street, thirteen, thousand, time, understand , year In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: back, bring, does, history, hour, human, life, lost, moment, recover, regret, single, something, thousand, will , years
