"Seriously, I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met, " she continued.

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If you look at the Middle East, there are wars and conflict that are rooted in arguments going back a thousand years.

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The two regions have had diplomatic relations dating back a thousand years.

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Roll back the tape a few thousand years to when every element of life was controlled by the tribe.

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It is easy to lose your footing, and tumble back down, bouncing off the steps like the sacrificial victims of a thousand years ago.

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Prices began to rise, continued to rise for about two, three months and then a major bear market kicked in, prices did not get back to the thousand level for ten years.

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After midnight, we will be looking back for real at a long year of Internet froth, a decade of increasing velocity, a century of turmoil (trapped by triumph) and a thousand years where change has been so vast, so profound, that we can scarcely comprehend life Way Back Then.

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In fact, on the back cover of his book he declares that many people alive today could live to be a thousand years.

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