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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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"Once in the racket you're always in it." »Al Capone
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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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"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit." »General Smedley Butler
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"Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now" »Clive Staples Lewis
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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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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers." »Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." »Robert R. Coveyou
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." »Voltaire
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." »Voltaire
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"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height." »Victor Hugo
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"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)" »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves" »John Wayne
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"Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world." »Jane Harrison
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"Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ." »J. Arthur Lewis
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