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In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

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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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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

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It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

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That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

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This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

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

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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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Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

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One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

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The value is in the worth, not in the number.

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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

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