“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.” IfsMadeSaidTwoThreeChanceSeaExampleTenRiversTwentiesFoundationAssumingFinalsCaughtFishesBoatThirtyLakesFishingFortyArrangements Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .” PeopleYearsMightRiskSeaTenSouthChinaBombsVillageCommunistVietnamFloatsDrowningPiracyDehydration Author:Vernon A. Walters
“In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.” WorldSeaStreetsThousandTenNeighborMilesIslandsRisingMiles AwayThousand Miles Author:Achim Steiner
“My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.” SoulSeaThousandTenSizeWideMilesMy SoulBeerStakesThousand MilesFingernails Author:Ursula K. Le Guin