#thousands

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

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#exemplified #going #success #take #thinking

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

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#around #bites #educational #get #how

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#also #award #bleeding #boast #clicked

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#day #fathers #founding #founding fathers #home

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#i #like #schools #thousands #went

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