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- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is… — Abu Bakr
- Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? — Woody Allen
- To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing… — Grover Cleveland
- To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill
- Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding
- His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could… — George Wilson
- Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch
- This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in… — Thomas S. Monson
- What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the… — Saint Augustine