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Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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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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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

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

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All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

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

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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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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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

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Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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