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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

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

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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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Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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

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Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

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There's not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes - that's not a very good theory.

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

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

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...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

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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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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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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

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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 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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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

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