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• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  Ted Nelson

  Arbitrary, Information, Kind

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• The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, School, Government

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• Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

  Chris Brogan

  Marketing, Facts, Details

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• I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Life, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 15, 2015

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• Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;
  by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.
  Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;
  this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.

  Charles Wesley

  Christmas, Meaningful, Sadness

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• A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Death, Prayer, People

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• How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

  Louis C. K.

  Women, Heart, Profound

  "Louis C.K. Oh My God". Documentary, Comedy, 2013.

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• Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Men, Wealth

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com

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• There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  People, Attention, Pay

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• The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Names, Speak, Invisible

  "The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter". Book by George Savile, 1688.

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• Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Together, Technique

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• If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Years, Marketing

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• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Important Events, Years

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• Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

  Gordon Moore

  Technology, Law, Months

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• Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Community, Liberty

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Miscarriage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.259

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• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Small Numbers, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.110

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Men, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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• Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

  Herman Melville

  Greek, Benefits, Twins

  Herman Melville (1969). “Redburn, His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.269, Northwestern University Press

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• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Freedom, 4 Hour Work Week, Practicals

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Creating, Long

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 15, 2014

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• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Dresses, Certain

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• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Views, Liberty, Minorities

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Country, Law, Liberty

  "A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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