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"The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve."
"I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick."
"One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves."
"I want a thousand guitars . . ."
"A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong."
"A smile can heal a thousand wounds."
"Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished."
"It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific"
"A thousand approaches lie open to death."
"Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?"
"A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over"
"You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists."
"God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless."
"A thousand ills require a thousand cures."
"My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better."
"A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves."
"Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers."
"Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!"
"I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words."
"One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?"
