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«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»

Author: Jacob Riis (Photographer, Reporter) | Keywords: a hundred, a hundred times, blow, Blown Away, crack, going away, gone, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, hundred-and-first, hundred, I go, look at, much as, Nothing yet, perhaps, rock, seems, showing, split, splits, splitting, split up, stonecutter

«A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.»

Author: Le Corbusier (Architect) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: a hundred times, catastrophe, The New York Times

«Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.»

Author: Turkish Proverb | Keywords: a hundred, a hundred times, a thousand, hundred, listen, ponder, pondered, pondering, ponders, speak, thousand, thousand times, times

«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»

Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim

«Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.»

Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: admired, at first, at first sight, a hundred, a hundred times, cast, circumstances, degree, expression, favorable, figure, haunted, hundred, meeting, perfection, realizing, sight, sight seeing, The Haunted, The Haunting

«A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.»

Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: a hundred times, depend, depend on, exert, exerted, exerting, exerts, give in, Hundred Days, labors, Labor Day, order of the day, outer, received, receiving, remind

«He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: a hundred times, bore, fights, lest, monster, monsters, thereby, Too Short

«Sin cannot tear you away from him (Christ), even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders»

Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | About: Sin | Keywords: adulteries, adultery, as many, a hundred, a hundred times, commit, Hundred Days, murders, tear

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