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Henry David Thoreau: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
If you can't do that first step, are you really going to look up the other thousand facts you're going to need to know to master your knowledge of U.S. foreign policy?
Six thousand children each year who would have previously died of this disease are cured.
I would be less mindful of time and of death, and, oh, I would not be disabled, would not suffer the thousand slings and arrows of my fortune.
Now, about a hundred thousand patients in the world have received deep brain stimulation, and I'm going to show you some examples of using deep brain stimulation to treat disorders of movement, disorders of mood and disorders of cognition.
And for a few thousand visits, I would see the same thing every time, the little differences in the Earth.
Ten thousand years ago, the humans and livestock and pets were not even one tenth of one percent and wouldn't even have been visible on such a curve.
For God's sake no, a thousand times no.
Aristophanes, the ancient Greek playwright, he described the clouds as the patron godesses of idle fellows two and a half thousand years ago, and you can see what he means.
And the next day, when I woke up in the absence of telephones and TVs and laptops, the days seemed to stretch for a thousand hours.
Forty-two thousand of them were life-threatening situations.
The chassis is made up of about 11,000 components, the engine another 6,000, the electronics about eight and a half thousand.
And it was like holding onto a thousand horses.
This number is 17 and a half thousand slides long, and we know it is prime as confidently as we know the number seven is prime.
In no other Latin American country are there more than a couple of thousand.
An image is worth more than a thousand words, so I'm going to start my talk by stop talking and show you a few images that I recently captured.
Three hundred and fifty thousand people a day walk through Times Square, and people had tried for years to make changes.
Three hundred and fifty thousand children and me.
In about five billion years, our sun will become a red giant, as large as the Earth's orbit, and our Earth will be kaput, and in a thousand billion years, if dark energy keeps on fueling space expansion at the present rate, you will not even be able to see as far as your toes, because everything around you expands at a rate faster than the speed of light.
I've got goggles and I'm turning my head 50 times a minute, and I'm singing ... (Singing) Imagine there's no heaven (Laughter) doo doo doo doo doo It's easy if you try doo doo doo doo doo And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.
Imagine there's no heaven (Laughter) And when I get through the end of a thousand of John Lennon's "Imagine," I have swum nine hours and 45 minutes ... exactly.
That's a hundred thousand billion.
And from that, you can do things like reconstructing this extraordinary journey of that city that managed to have a sustainable development over a thousand years, managing to have all the time a form of equilibrium with its environment.
A thousand years ago, we used to have whole dictionaries of sex in Arabic.
Sandra and 15 other young Nigerians died that day, applying for a job, in the ensuing stampede, as tens of thousands of people applied for a few thousand open positions.
Being a surrogate donor only requires you to say a few hundred to a few thousand utterances.
Well, if you take agriculture over a century, agriculture in about 1900 would have been recognizable to somebody planting a thousand years earlier.
Ten thousand years ago, our entire world was wilderness.
Ten thousand years ago, we were as we are today: a modern, dreaming intelligence unlike anything seen before.
Three thousand very happy revelers, many of them teenagers, were crammed into a space meant for 1,000.
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