#thousand

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#begins #however #journey #leagues #must

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ↗

— George Stigler

#citizens #discuss #economist #fellow #fellow citizens

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. ↗

— George Stigler

#challenge #challenges #chemist #citizens #competition

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#almost #changed #conquest #continued #countries

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. ↗

— Rex Stout

#effort #shrewd #stokes #thousand #touches

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them. ↗

— Ed Asner

#along #bush #comes #credit #enough

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#before #britain #did #different #disease

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#couple #dollars #perhaps #side #thousand

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people. ↗

— Todd English

#fix #get #going #good #hate