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• The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dog, Mistake, Thinking

  ""Biggest Loser" host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Men, Growth

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• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Edward Thorndike

  Race, Intellectual, Delicacy

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

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• I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

  Daniel Tammet

  Kids, Play, Way

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• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Views, Political, Unions

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• I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

  Emma Stone

  Honesty, Thinking, People

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• We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

  Lewis Thomas

  Clever, Thinking, Brain

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• I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

  Martha Stewart

  Love, Success, Baseball

  “CNN Larry King Live”, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2004.

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• The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Judging, Peer Pressure

  1779 Mr Puff.The Critic, act 1, sc.2.

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• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Firsts, Tvs

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• Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Hypocrite, Mirrors

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• Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

  Maurice Strong

  Development, Accepted, Nevertheless

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• I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Frustration, Small Numbers

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• I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

  Charlie Sheen

  Believe, Golden, Sombreros

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". "Boston Dirt Dogs" Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Two, Lunch

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• I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

  Daniel Tammet

  Mind, Shapes, Able

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Men, Giving, Trying

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• You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

  Clarence Thomas

  Fighting, People, Choices

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• I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

  Daniel Tammet

  Believe, Mind, Facts

  "Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

  James Surowiecki

  Small Numbers, Corporations, Reason

  "Private Lies". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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• There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

  James Thurber

  Funny, Witty, Safety

  New Yorker 4 Feb. 1939 "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

  Gene Tierney

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Years, Age

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

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• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Long, Remember, One Thing

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