#thousands

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

#been #carried #duties #dutiful #duty

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#actually #brunt #classroom #directly #going

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#cannot #celtic #character #countrymen #disliked

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ↗

— Alan Kay

#brute #brute force #done #each #egyptian

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lived #miles #potent #smell #thousands

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made? ↗

— Jonathan King

#complaints #decades #historical #hours #into

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computer #fact #field #i #in fact

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#care #choice #choose #employers #forced