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• ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Clever, Smart, Knitting

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• There was a young fellow from Trinity,
  Who took the square root of infinity.
  But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
  He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  George Gamow

  Science, Math, Squares

  "One, Two, Three...Infinity". Book by George Gamow, 1947.

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• Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Children, School

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• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Unexpected, Infinite

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• So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

  "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Mystery

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• Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

  Susana Martinez

  Analysis, Sometimes, Republican

  "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Assails Romney's Immigration Views" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Confirmation, Envious, Capability

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• I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Solitude, Helping, Wonder

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Courage, Believe, Thinking

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• The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

  Harry Wong

  Discipline, Problem, Classroom

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

  Pat Summitt

  Eight, Games, Different

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• You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

  William Zinsser

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

  Helene Deutsch

  Lonely, Persons

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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• Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Culture, Online

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• Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the council exists. We band together because there's strength in numbers. Because in its unperverted state, the council ensures representative government and a pooling of resources and ideas that benefits everyone." "Yes, but the operative word there is unperverted, and right now, you guys are operating under the thumb of the biggest power-pervert ever to swish his tail in the U.S. He's like Hitler with fur.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pride, Government, Ideas

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.226, MIRA

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• her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Silence, Solitude

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.227, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect for its Author is not inspired in us by this view of the universe!

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Science, Views

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• You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

  Joe Biden

  New York, Military, Decision

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• However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

  Alex Campbell

  Spiritual, Rural Areas, Urban

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• There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, People, Needs

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• Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

  Arfa Karim

  Friendly, Microsoft, Novices

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Wall, Thinking

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