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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

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There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

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One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

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We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

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I am ill at these numbers.

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There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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