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One In A Million

«Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.»
«A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.»
«The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.»
«John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?»
«When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise?»
«They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.»
«Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.»
«Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.»
«If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.»
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»