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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers – Leo Rosten	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It takes more than a thousand to make a May '68, you need a whole country. – Albert Ogien	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This decision follows a sustained political attack on the Company, and the concern that the jobs and livelihoods of nearly one thousand employees would be at immediate risk as a result of the outgoing director's association with the company. – Oakbay Resources	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was no real physical material that we could mimic, there was no found footage or anything of how he spoke. You know, the cliché is a picture says a thousand words, but it really is true, we tried to capture the essence of this man and his resilience that you could see in the pictures, you could read in the book. He's fiercely passionate and that's something I could really dial into. – Toby Jones	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have lost, since 2001, almost 60,000 factories. Can you imagine that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can't send 20, 30 thousand people in, wrap it up in just a few months and live happily ever after, because the fundamental problems remain. – Michael Eisenstadt	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If it can be said that that we want to safeguard China's rights and interest in the South China Sea, fishermen, because they have been living and surviving on fishing for the past thousand years, have been proof of our rights and interests. – Luo Baoming	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Computers were very expensive -- I think one we had here, for example, was something on the order of two or three hundred thousand dollars. That's 1970 dollars. They were a scarce resource. – Ray Tomlinson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I also know that there were reports today about the hundreds of officials and the thousand emails that they were sending back and forth that have been looked at and classified retroactively. This really raises serious questions about this whole process, i think Colin Powell summed it up well. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In my view, a brokered convention ain't going to happen, and if the Washington deal-makers tried to steal the nomination from the people, I think it would be a disaster, we've got to win this nomination. One-thousand, two-hundred and thirty-seven delegates is what it takes to be the Republican nominee. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've worked a thousand-plus accidents in my career, and once a car catches on fire, the time that they take to go up is pretty quick, most times you don't have any time to get a fire like that out, especially one of that magnitude, so I just knew I had to get her out as soon as I could. – Missouri State Trooper Jim Thuss	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think (the bill) is dangerously harmful to students because we know there is a higher risk of suicide (among transgender people) in general, but among transgender students, there's an even higher risk. Eighty-three thousand signatures shows just how many reasons (the governor) has to veto this. – Heather Smith	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A swing producer means that virtually at the flip of a switch, you can go up several hundred thousand barrels per day or down several hundred thousand barrels per day, shale can't do that. Saudi Arabia can. – John Hess	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can make a hundred thousand different varieties of the human form, and there's always going to be one more. – Matthew McMullen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I spend mostly on sports shoes and sports watches, from an expenses point of view, not including transport fees ... I spend a few thousand yuan a year. But if I start biking, then I suspect I'll start spending a lot. – Gu Xiaojiang	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.” – Buckminster Fuller	added by anonymous 8 years ago
Every candidate, regardless of their ideology, after you meet them we often walk away saying,' I love her or I love Donald Trump,' i always say it's like the student council president times a thousand. They have charisma -- they got this far for a reason. – Bruce Schoenfeld	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border - how to relocate these new people coming from Syria? three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey. – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Someone sees one groundhog and they think that within two years, there will be a thousand, only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'. – John Griffin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was shocked. All you think about is mean girls but ... the boys were a thousand times worse. – Rebecca Levey	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Early farming helped keep the planet warm, after 12 years of debate about whether the climate of the last several thousand years has been entirely natural or in considerable part the result of early agriculture, converging evidence from several scientific disciplines points to a major anthropogenic influence. – William Ruddiman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
After 12 years of debate about whether the climate of the last several thousand years has been entirely natural or in considerable part the result of early agriculture, converging evidence from several scientific disciplines points to a major anthropogenic influence. – William Ruddiman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our technology can all share the same infrastructure, a single person, or a train with a thousand people could take advantage of this incredibly efficient low-cost, new maglev technology. – Greg Henderson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The next thing I know, the pictures just went viral, within an hour. I saw like a thousand retweets; everyone was reposting it. – Devin Allen	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

– Leo Rosten

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It takes more than a thousand to make a May '68, you need a whole country.

– Albert Ogien

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This decision follows a sustained political attack on the Company, and the concern that the jobs and livelihoods of nearly one thousand employees would be at immediate risk as a result of the outgoing director's association with the company.

– Oakbay Resources

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was no real physical material that we could mimic, there was no found footage or anything of how he spoke. You know, the cliché is a picture says a thousand words, but it really is true, we tried to capture the essence of this man and his resilience that you could see in the pictures, you could read in the book. He's fiercely passionate and that's something I could really dial into.

– Toby Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have lost, since 2001, almost 60,000 factories. Can you imagine that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can't send 20, 30 thousand people in, wrap it up in just a few months and live happily ever after, because the fundamental problems remain.

– Michael Eisenstadt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If it can be said that that we want to safeguard China's rights and interest in the South China Sea, fishermen, because they have been living and surviving on fishing for the past thousand years, have been proof of our rights and interests.

– Luo Baoming

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Computers were very expensive -- I think one we had here, for example, was something on the order of two or three hundred thousand dollars. That's 1970 dollars. They were a scarce resource.

– Ray Tomlinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I also know that there were reports today about the hundreds of officials and the thousand emails that they were sending back and forth that have been looked at and classified retroactively. This really raises serious questions about this whole process, i think Colin Powell summed it up well.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In my view, a brokered convention ain't going to happen, and if the Washington deal-makers tried to steal the nomination from the people, I think it would be a disaster, we've got to win this nomination. One-thousand, two-hundred and thirty-seven delegates is what it takes to be the Republican nominee.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've worked a thousand-plus accidents in my career, and once a car catches on fire, the time that they take to go up is pretty quick, most times you don't have any time to get a fire like that out, especially one of that magnitude, so I just knew I had to get her out as soon as I could.

– Missouri State Trooper Jim Thuss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think (the bill) is dangerously harmful to students because we know there is a higher risk of suicide (among transgender people) in general, but among transgender students, there's an even higher risk. Eighty-three thousand signatures shows just how many reasons (the governor) has to veto this.

– Heather Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A swing producer means that virtually at the flip of a switch, you can go up several hundred thousand barrels per day or down several hundred thousand barrels per day, shale can't do that. Saudi Arabia can.

– John Hess

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can make a hundred thousand different varieties of the human form, and there's always going to be one more.

– Matthew McMullen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I spend mostly on sports shoes and sports watches, from an expenses point of view, not including transport fees ... I spend a few thousand yuan a year. But if I start biking, then I suspect I'll start spending a lot.

– Gu Xiaojiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.”

– Buckminster Fuller

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Every candidate, regardless of their ideology, after you meet them we often walk away saying,' I love her or I love Donald Trump,' i always say it's like the student council president times a thousand. They have charisma -- they got this far for a reason.

– Bruce Schoenfeld

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border - how to relocate these new people coming from Syria? three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey.

– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Someone sees one groundhog and they think that within two years, there will be a thousand, only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'.

– John Griffin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was shocked. All you think about is mean girls but ... the boys were a thousand times worse.

– Rebecca Levey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Early farming helped keep the planet warm, after 12 years of debate about whether the climate of the last several thousand years has been entirely natural or in considerable part the result of early agriculture, converging evidence from several scientific disciplines points to a major anthropogenic influence.

– William Ruddiman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

After 12 years of debate about whether the climate of the last several thousand years has been entirely natural or in considerable part the result of early agriculture, converging evidence from several scientific disciplines points to a major anthropogenic influence.

– William Ruddiman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our technology can all share the same infrastructure, a single person, or a train with a thousand people could take advantage of this incredibly efficient low-cost, new maglev technology.

– Greg Henderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The next thing I know, the pictures just went viral, within an hour. I saw like a thousand retweets; everyone was reposting it.

– Devin Allen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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