#numbers

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#going #gonna #guy #hate #i

Early numbers are always wrong. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#early #numbers #wrong

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#crutch #go #need #noses #numbers

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#comes #just #know #numbers #out

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#cultures #going #interact #massive #normally

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way. ↗

— David Walliams

#comedy #even #funnier #instance #magic

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ↗

— George Washington

#discipline #esteem #formidable #makes #numbers

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ↗

— George Washington

#army #discipline #gives #hurtful #more