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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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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." »Emo Phillips
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"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." »Oliver Goldsmith
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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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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary." »Franklin P. Adams
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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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"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage." »Athenus
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"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H. L. Mencken
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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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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." »Aaron Machado
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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"Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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""I'm thinking of a number between One and Infinity."" »Tom Zegan
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"Youth is in the heart and age is just a number" »Ahmad A. Charaf
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"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job." »Peter Drucker
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"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." »Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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"The sands are number'd that make up my life." »William Shakespeare
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