#thousands

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

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people! ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#mine #people #performing #probably #speaking

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #been #dangerous #dealt #fascists

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#i love #like #love #quickly #set

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school. ↗

— Ryan White

#because #go #i #letters #received

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#great #i #kings #old #palaces

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#fifty #forth #good #hundred #least