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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Chekhov
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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But of all other ideas, it is number, which I think furnishes us with the clearest and most distinct idea of infinity we are capable of.
John Locke
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
Albert Camus
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
Pythagoras
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.
Epicurus
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SOC:
And all arithmetic and calculations have to do with number?
GLAUCON:
Yes.
SOC:
And they appear to lead the mind towards truth?
GLAUCON:
Yes, in a very remarkable manner.
Plato
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Time is "number of movement in respect to the before and after", and is continuous since it is an attribute of what is continuous.
Aristotle
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
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In an infinite number universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinity of stars on each side of it.
Stephen Hawking
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The mind cannot possibly grasp the full meaning of the term of even a million years; it cannot add up and perceive the full effects of many slight variations, accumulated during an almost infinite number of generations.
Charles Darwin
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Thinking by analogy is not to be despised. Analogy has this merit, that it does not settle things - does not pretend to be conclusive. On the other hand, that induction is pernicious which, with a preconceived end in view, and working right forward for only that, drags in its train a number of unsifted observations, both false and true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas...
Jane Austen
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When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.
Anton Chekhov
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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway
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For number applies itself to men, angels, actions, thoughts; everything that either doth exist, or can be imagined.
John Locke
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If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
Barack Obama
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When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number.
Christopher Columbus
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General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at length there was no people beside themselves; the establishment was then dissolved, and the number of priests was reduced and limited. Thus among us, writers will, perhaps, be multiplied, till no readers will be found, and then the ambition of writing must necessarily cease.
Samuel Johnson
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Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three, seven, ace!" "Three, seven, queen!"
Alexander Pushkin
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi
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