Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't… — Scott Perry Copy Share Image
We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting… — Muriel Siebert Copy Share Image
My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people… — Akbar S. Ahmed Copy Share Image
The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it...Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising… — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens… — Candice S. Miller Copy Share Image
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to… — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going… — Daphne Koller Copy Share Image
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image