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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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"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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"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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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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"all our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein
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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." »Emo Phillips
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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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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"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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"Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either." »Jerry Coleman
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots." »George Santayana
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"It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs." »Richard Needham
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"The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it." »Navajo Chant
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems." »Sydney Harris
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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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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." »Stewart Brand
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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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