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In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

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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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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.

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I am ill at these numbers.

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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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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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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

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I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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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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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

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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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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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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

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Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

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The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

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