A Million Is a Statistic/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|A cyclone struck Bangladesh in November 1970 and killed 225,000 people. (And it sometimes seems, when writing about Bangladesh, that I could put any number in that last sentence and people would believe me. I could say a million people died in a Bangladeshi train wreck, and readers would scrunch their brows and shake their heads in little mimes of concern, then wonder if Ortho-Novum can't be sprayed from planes.)|'''P.J. O'Rourke''', ''All the Trouble in the World''}}

 

 

{{quote|"I’ve noticed that about your people, Doctor- You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours."|'''[[The Spock|Spock]]''', ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''}}

{{quote|''"If we stop killing people by the millions they will start to get ideas"''|'''Yezhov (One of Stalin's henchman)''' ''This quote is from an A level history text book, I cant find it anywhere else, but it sounds cool and is of slight relevance''}}

 

'''Xavin''': ''That's idiotic! A million deaths is a million times more tragic than one! It's simple arithmetic!''|''[[Runaways]]''}}

 

''Cumulative losses to Imperial forces: 745 planets, 12 trillion drones, primary unicomplex, 29000 ships. Species 3387, Species 1242, Species 6211, and 35 other species have now allied themselves with Imperial forces and launched attacks on Borg planets since destruction of Unicomplex.''|[[Conquest]]}}

 

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