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• What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People, Doe

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• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  People, Experience, Movement

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Errors, Phones, Editing

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• The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

  Rick Warren

  Atheist, Europe, Manhattan

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• Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Army, Discipline

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.359

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Success, Mother, Truth

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Funny Life, Accomplish Nothing

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Leader

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• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  J. C. Watts

  Christian, Prayer, Journey

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  J. C. Watts

  Black, Alarms, May

  "What Color Is a Conservative?". Book by Chriss Winston and J. C. Watts, abcnews.go.com. October 22, 2002.

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• The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Beautiful, Truth, Growing Up

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  Jack Welch

  Kings, Talking, Two

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• A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

  Jack Welch

  Two, People, Cost

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  H. G. Wells

  People, Phrases, Literature

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.4, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Lynching, Years

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• If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

  Kanye West

  Artist, Thinking, Fans

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, Design, Decision

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• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  Betty White

  People, Goes On, Paper

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Father

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  Venus Williams

  Being Happy, Sports, Healthy

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• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  Flip Wilson

  Years, Umpires, Four

  "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Giving, Tvs

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