#millions

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#avenue #begins #buying #desks #discussing

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#masses #millions #politics #serious #thousands

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#darker #draws #emotion #emotions #expressing

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#committee #economic #find #hearts #industrial

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ever #hunger #millions #necessary #only

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#create #economy #federal #federal government #going

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american #american citizens #appointments #brazen #citizens

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#enjoy #helps #kept #millions #only