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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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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

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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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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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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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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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I am ill at these numbers.

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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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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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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

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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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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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

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I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

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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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By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

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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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