The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.