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"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
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"There are 1011 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." »Richard Feynman
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"numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength." »W. T. Ussery
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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." »Florence Shinn
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"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine." »Joel Patrick Warneke
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman
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"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp
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"Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk." »Harry Leon Wilson
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"My work is a game, a very serious game." »M. C. Escher
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"Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy" »Made
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"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives." »Anonymous
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else." »James Thurber
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"URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's." »Chris Clark
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"Round numbers are always false." »Samuel Johnson
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"Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art." »Robin Tyler
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"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?" »Pliny the Elder
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"Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding." »Lord Kelvin
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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." »Robert R. Coveyou
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers." »Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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"We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds." »Bruce B. Dan
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer." »Carl Sandburg
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"There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men." »Unknown
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"That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms." »Jeff Melvoin
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"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble" »Benjamin Spock
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." »Scott Adams
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"Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres." »The Divine Pymander
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"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." »Terry Pratchett, Eric
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"The game is up." »William Shakespeare
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"The game's not over until it's over." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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