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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness, fear, justice, americans, hope, war, world

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, ...

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Quote by George Pataki about sport, competition, country

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not...

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Quote by George Herbert about parents

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Quote by Alan Alexander Milne about life, day

You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.

Quote by Hank Aaron about games, drinking, day, time

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love

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...

Quote by Richard Bach about evolution, civilization, intelligence, gifts, love

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands. '' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, idea

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no...

Quote by John Adams about things, thinking, writing, hope, people

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I...

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

Quote by Andre Agassi

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools...

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about opinion, architecture, painting, poetry, man

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have...

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about defects

And I've just done an exhibition of paintings of mine -...

And I've just done an exhibition of paintings of mine - one hundred paintings down in San Antonio for some friends of my wife, Lulu and Aaron Tucker.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about wife

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

Quote by Mick Jagger about writing

You can't really be friendly with something that has not...

You can't really be friendly with something that has not evolved one second since the Mesozoic era, in about a hundred million years.

Quote by Don Johnson

The night before the English history midterm, your...

The night before the English history midterm, your Biology instructor will assign two hundred pages on planarian.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, night, history

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

Quote by Tim Page about opinion, poker, being, people

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