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• I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, Pieces, Collectors

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• I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Teaching, School

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

  Bob Woodward

  Swag, Literature, Conspiracy

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

  Steven Wright

  Men, Gambling, Las Vegas

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• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  Robert Wyatt

  Needs, Pieces, Paper

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• Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

  Ron Wyden

  Simple, Oil, Cost

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Room Service

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• All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Sibling, School, College

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, People, Done

  "The Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg opens up" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, War, Saws

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Yield, Nuclear, Tests

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Lists, Fans, Three

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Police, Facts

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• Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Teenager, Cutting, Cities

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  Hanna Rosin

  Doe, Facts, Intimate

  "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.

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• If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

  Hanna Rosin

  Men, Average, Class

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• In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Age, Connections, Duration

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

  Colm Toibin

  Men, Views, House

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Female, Records

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• The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

  George M. Whitesides

  Reading, Simple, Errors

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Play, Weather

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

  George Eliot

  Life, Obscurity, Half

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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• You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Two, Affection

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cake, Chocolate, Gum

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