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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

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

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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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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

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A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

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

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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

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You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

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Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

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

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

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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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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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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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The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

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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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