| "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 |
| "Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits." »Rick Irving |
| "There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number." »Doug Larson |
| "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 |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two." »Bernd Brecher |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "Taxation without representation is tyranny." »James Otis |
| "Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either." »Gerald Barzan |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy." »John Rocco Savalli |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it." »Paul Klee |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher |
| "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator." »Anonymous |
| "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." »Robert A. Humphrey |
| "There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number." »Jerry Coleman |
| "There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job." »Peter Drucker |
| "Feeding the starving poor only increases their number." »Ben Bova |
| "Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living." »Jean Kerr |
| "A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." »Henry Fielding |
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