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"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits." »Rick Irving
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." »Albert Einstein
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"There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number." »Doug Larson
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." »Thomas Higginson
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"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." »Tom Hopkins
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"number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of number." »Maurice Druon
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two." »Bernd Brecher
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"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way." »Carl Jung
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Hitchhiker No No, no, not 6 I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted That -- good point. Hitchhiker 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted Why Hitchhiker 'Cause you're fired" »There's Something About Mary
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"Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas
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"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)." »Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura
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"Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face." »Vaclav Havel
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"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." »William Fullbright
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein
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"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike
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""I'm thinking of a number between One and Infinity."" »Tom Zegan
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