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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

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We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

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The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

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You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

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A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

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