#thousand

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#accounts #both #capable #care #choices

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#desire #list #lose #new #pounds

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#burning #bush #cave #eats #every

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#broad #came #concerned #confused #constitutional

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#born #circumstances #contribute #determined #differing