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«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.»
«I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living»
«Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase»
«I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do»
Author: Nicholas I | About: Government | Keywords: clerking, clerks, Russia, ten thousand
«He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers»
«Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely»
Author: Arnold Bennett | About: Literature | Keywords: afterward, finely, ten thousand
«One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars»
«Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.»
«I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: / Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ten thousand
«If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.»

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