#hundreds

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

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#because #career #certainly #could #feel

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. ↗

— David Eagleman

#brain #built #called #cells #city

It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

#based #because #disabled #hundreds #i

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. ↗

— Edward Grey

#each #few #hundreds #instead #manifold

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#ever #fired #had #hundreds #i

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#because #been #big #big deal #child

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like. ↗

— Lance Burton

#counted #cues #down #each #everything

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. ↗

— Kit Carson

#camp #ever #first #found #great