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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.


Van Wyck Brooks


#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.


Georgie Fame


#day #did #found #gear #half

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.


Chow Yun-Fat


#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.


Paul Farmer


#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.


Mac Thornberry


#dangerous #foolish #head #know #limit

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.


Wilfred Burchett


#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.


Louis Farrakhan


#cities #come #host #i #islam

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.


Richard Burton


#burn #child #each #furious #her

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.


Lord Byron


#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.


James Caan


#believe #certain #certain way #develop #grow






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