Quotes by Small Numbers Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few. Malcolm Gladwell small-numbers mean people The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements. Mao Zedong small-numbers leader winning Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine. Mary Doria Russell small-numbers dog years I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number. Michael Myers small-numbers common-sense years Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid. Michael Perrin small-numbers would-be reality A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf small-numbers military funny Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. Paul Cezanne small-numbers judging art My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way. Paul Lynde small-numbers eight house It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary. Paul Valery small-numbers soul use It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already. Peggy McIntosh white-privilege small-numbers hands I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules. Penn Jillette small-numbers christian play Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work. Peter Stone small-numbers trying people To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself. Pope Leo XIII small-numbers men hands Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament. Pope John Paul II small-numbers holiness world There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. Richard Perle small-numbers iraq people Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully. Richard P. Feynman small-numbers assumption thinking A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition. Rick Scarborough small-numbers religious christian A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. Roald Dahl small-numbers incidents life-is There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor. Robert Tisserand small-numbers cancer doctors People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no. Roger Ebert small-numbers learning-something-new media «12345»
