Number Quotes
4034 Number quotes by 2939 unique authors
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
— Plutarch
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But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent…
— Margot Adler
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A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
— Des MacHale
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The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
— Mark Cane
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Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
— Mike Davies
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an…
— Hal Abelson
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible…
— Plato
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No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation…
— Unknown Author
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
— Plato
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
— James D. Watson
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Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another.…
— Dalai Lama
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I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as…
— Craig F. Bohren
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Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be…
— Arjun Makhijani
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Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
— Michael Parfit
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It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on…
— Geneen Roth
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For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding.…
— Don Berliner
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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…
— Gautama Buddha
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The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older,…
— Bing Gordon
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When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them…
— Steven Kotler
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at…
— Charles Macomb Flandrau
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Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
— William of Ockham
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to…
— Rachel Kushner
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I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a…
— Unknown Author
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