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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.


Edward Young


#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.


Aaron Sorkin


#great #i #kings #old #palaces

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.


Mao Zedong


#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.


Robin Gibb


#bother #crowded #flights #full #i

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!


Philip Gibbs


#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?


Khalil Gibran


#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.


Ryan Giggs


#children #every #exactly #footballer #happens

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#assemble #content #depressed #end #i

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.


Jane Goodall


#been #being #destroying #environment #fantastic

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.


Martha Graham


#men #need #reason #reasons #some