#thousands

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#children #decades #helped #i #supported

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#cases #killing #operative #part #practice

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#away #executed #launched #learn #miles

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#being #captured #felt #know #like

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#end #five #lives #more #most

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. ↗

— Greg Egan

#hundreds #people #read #story #thousands

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#concentrating #cost #engineers #idea #improving

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ↗

— Buddha

#being #candle #candles #decreases #happiness