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«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»

«Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? / Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? / Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? / How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? / Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.»

«These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.»

«These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.»

«These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.»

«So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; / Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.»

«Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; / Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.»

«The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.»

«O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! / How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? / For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.»

«Passing from mouth to mouth it was learned by a thousand, and by the time it came to be heard by the king he learned of how a cow laid an egg!»