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That all that, discovered in 40 years, had not been in the previous hundred thousand was not for lack of thinking about stars and all those other urgent problems they had.
This was not a prevalent view, few thousand years ago, and I attribute it to this non-zero-sum dynamic.
Varuna has but a thousand eyes.
In fact, there is a text, and that has over a thousand uses of this first computer.
They collect 100 thousand liters in one season.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so we can say a thousand words right now, an another thousand words.
A typical day at Aravind, we would do about a thousand surgeries, maybe see about 6,000 patients, send out teams into the villages to examine, bring back patients, lots of telemedicine consultations, and, on top of that, do a lot of training, both for doctors and technicians who will become the future staff of Aravind.
And this happens several thousand times each year.
Even though the human brain had achieved its present size almost three or four hundred thousand years ago, 100,000 years ago all of this happened very, very quickly.
Blue cheese, ranch, oil and vinegar, thousand islands and house.
She says she first got started with 10 packets of bindis, and then wondered what she could do with 10 thousand.
But traditional incubators require electricity and cost up to 20 thousand dollars.
Now, here is King Cnut, king a thousand years ago.
Couldn't actually turn back very much, because if you were king a thousand years ago, while it still took hours and hours and weeks and weeks to traverse your own country, there wasn't much you were in charge of.
When King Henry of England died, he had 18,000 things in his house, but that was the entire wealth of England, so ... (Laughter) And with that entire wealth of England, King Henry could not buy any antibiotics, he could not buy refrigeration, he could not buy a trip of a thousand miles, whereas this rickshaw wallah in India could save up and buy antibiotics and he could buy refrigeration.
Archeologists will dig us up in a thousand years and they won't know about defensive medicine and stuff, but they'll see all these labels, "Contents are extremely hot."
And this gas that is delivered in over a thousand critical care hospitals worldwide, now is approved, on label, and saves thousands of babies a year from certain death.
They were looking for a solution to deal with 30 or 40 thousand people a day who were going down there, that had nowhere to go.
I don't think it has much to do with 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 thousand new office spaces, regardless of what the number is.
If each of you differs from the person next to you by one in a thousand, but only three percent codes, which means it's only one in a thousand times three percent, very small differences in expression and punctuation can make a significant difference.
That's why you differ from this person over here by one in a thousand.
It's going 18 thousand miles an hour.
Now, if I compare that to a cotton towel that I can use a thousand times, I don't have a whole lot of embodied energy until I wash that yogurty towel.
And there's a thousand and one articles out there telling us how to make all these green trade-offs.
And finally, it's a rich lavender, and after a couple of thousand feet, it's ink black.
All together, we are over a thousand organizations in 120 countries.
There are now a couple of hundred thousand.
And she does it a few thousand times every day.
Now, there are around a thousand trucks and buses and cars there.
Try to convince donors to give you a couple thousand dollars to glue a satellite tag on the back of penguins.
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