“With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.” MembersHundredPairsProfessorsSurprisingSixtyEighteen Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.” StillsReligiousFiveFoodThousandMembersHundredSacredCookingCulinaryControversyDisputesSectsEucharistReligious Sects Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.” StatesGovernmentOrderGoes OnMembersPerceptionHundredTablesReportsInitiativePredecessorsState GovernmentBrusselsCompetencies Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“We know definitively that Al-Qaida isn't all over Afghanistan anymore. According to CIA estimates, there are less than a hundred Al-Qaida members in the entire country. Most of them are in Pakistan. So, it's hard for me to understand why we're still fighting there and sending in more and more troops. I would get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible.” KnowsStillsCountryHardFightingMembersHundredAlsAfghanistanTroopsPakistanCia Author:Jimmy Carter
“The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.” YearsWaitingAbilityBrainMillionsGrowingEmotionalThousandMembersCreatingCapableHundredBiggerSpeciesSizeAlliesThousand YearsElephantsNeuronsSproutsRelationships With OthersBiomassEmotional Relationship Author:John Medina