#thousand

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#ceremony #deeply #important #major #male

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#battery #field #thousand #worth

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. ↗

— Ben Shneiderman

#picture #picture is worth #pictures #thousand #thousand words

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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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

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

— Rex Stout

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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? ↗

— John Millington Synge

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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

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