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Letter "A" » a hundred thousand
«It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live»
Author: Maximilien Francois Robespierre
| About:
Regret,
Truth
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, hundred thousand, Louis, pronounce
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Hunger
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, hundred thousand
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
accomplished, a hundred, a hundred thousand, hero, hundred thousand
«Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, destroyer, handed, healer, healers, helper, hundred thousand, parasite, rescued, steward, stewards, withdrew
«Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence? That has been done by a scoundrel commissary»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, commissary, hundred thousand, pounds
«I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, break into, flaws, hundred thousand, weeping
«A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, hundred thousand, welcomes
«Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, Defoe, fellows, hundred thousand, popery
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