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• The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years.
  The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. -- Edward Abbey...
• A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb
• Ten thousand years from now, the only story this civilization will tell will be in its junk piles- so observe what is important!
  -- Richard N. Farme...
• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal.
  -- Charles Galton Darwin (1809-1882)...
• Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
  -- Jean de LaBruyere...
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• Pictures worth a thousand words take ten thousand times as long to draw.
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live
  death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good....