Their Numbers Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up…
— Sun Tzu
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The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent…
— Margaret Sanger
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…
— Henry Walter Bates
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that…
— Alfred Jarry
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But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition,…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
— Mark Pincus
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I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of…
— Walter Crane
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These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of…
— Simon Schama
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If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is…
— Brendan Rodgers
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For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
— Ayn Rand
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Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for…
— Patrick Henry
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The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters…
— John Conyers
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of…
— Victor Hugo
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The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their…
— Michael Moore
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs…
— Cormac McCarthy
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There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men...…
— Alan Moore
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Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers…
— Edmund Spenser
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
— Eugene Ionesco
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We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when…
— Jill Lepore
Who Wrote These Their Numbers Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Their Numbers Quotes as follows: