Their Number Quotes

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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. — William J. Clinton
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the… — William James
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us… — Charles Caleb Colton
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however,… — Oliver Heaviside
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of… — John of the Cross
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How… — Ibn Hazm
Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish. — Isidore of Seville
The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low… — James E. McDonald
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number. — Michael Pare
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — Robert Bresson
Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased. — Herbert Hoover
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. — Robyn Hitchcock
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. — Ben Bova
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number. — Renata Adler

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