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• I am your number one fan.

  Stephen King

  Fans, Horror

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven

  Ellen Schreiber

  School, Ravens, Sick

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• I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Perfectly Good, Gold, Different

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• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Book, School

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• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Religious, Children, Knights

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• Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

  Julian Barnes

  Religious, Despair, Age

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

  Wendell Berry

  Corporations, Moral, Allegiance

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.185, Counterpoint Press

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• The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

  Thomas Mann

  Book, Personality, Magazines

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• Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

  Bobby Orr

  Success, Sports, Kids

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Historic, William The Conqueror

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Lists, Reverse, Revenue

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• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  Wilfred Owen

  Funny, Ambition, Ambitious

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics

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• I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Track, Groups, Lucky

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• It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  People, Mind, Use

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Believe, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Scene

  "The Great Gatsby : But First, a Word From Viagra" by Marie Woolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Order, Bread, Would Be

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Believe, Technology

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• Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

  Katy Perry

  Mean, Opportunity, People

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

  Tyler Perry

  Believe, Hype, Office

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• 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Titles, Dry

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• Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

  Steven Pinker

  People, World, Chance

  "Proud atheists". Salon Interview, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Dirty, Study

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• I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

  Steven Pinker

  Looks, Significant, Opening

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