Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Numbers Quotes, Quality Quotes

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

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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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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.

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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

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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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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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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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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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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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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

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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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