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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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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

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Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

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The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

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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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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 Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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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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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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

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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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I am ill at these numbers.

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

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

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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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Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

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

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