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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

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Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

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

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I am ill at these numbers.

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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

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

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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

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Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

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I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

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I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.

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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

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