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Actually, I believe in the third season, one of the characters says, "Three hundred and something", which is the number of days from that point that I would appear on the show. Which is awesome.
Michelle Trachtenberg
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Law Number XXXIII: Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman R. Augustine
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I made a list of things that I might consider sin if the concept of sin were valid:
Number 1: Credulity, gullibility. I'd say that's a sin.
Voluntary willful ignorance. I'd say that's a sin.
Letting fear prevent you from understanding reality. I'd call that a sin.
Limiting the rights and freedoms of others in order to make them abide by your standards. That's a sin.
Sacrificing the mental, emotional and physical well-being of a child in deference to your religion. That's a sin.
Wasting the one and only life that you know you're going to have, worrying about and working for an afterlife that somebody told you might be there. That's a sin.
Matt Dillahunty
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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
Stephen Fry
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It may sound fantastic to link the term "realism" with Conan; but as a matter of fact - his supernatural adventures aside - he is the most realistic character I ever evolved. He is simply a combination of a number of men I have known, and I think that's why he seemed to step full-grown into my consciousness when I wrote the first yarn of the series. Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.
Robert E. Howard
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.
Peter Lynch
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Law Number XLVII: Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman R. Augustine
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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The works of Creation are described as being completed in six days, the same formula for a day being repeated six times. The reason for this is that six is the number of perfection.
Augustine of Hippo
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That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.
Colin Powell
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The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million—a number of possible windows not to be reckoned rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.
Henry James
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Road to Social Justice. The first and perhaps the most important of the factors which have contributed to our failure to make real impact on poverty expressed in terms of total number who live below the poverty line has clearly been the uncontrolled growth of our population... First, we must, at all costs, make a much more earnest effort at controlling the growth of our population. As it is, we are running out of time and there is no longer any possibility of preventing it from exceeding 1,000 million souls by the end of the century.
J. R. D. Tata
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Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley
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We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.
Annie Leonard
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On the 25th of June I arrived safely at Santa Fé,— but again rode back to meet the wagons, which did not reach the capital till the 4th of July. We did not encounter a very favorable reception from 'his majesty,' Gov. Armijo. He had just established his arbitrary impost of $500 per wagon, which bore rather heavily upon us; for we had an overstock of coarse articles which we had merely brought along for the purpose of increasing the strength of our company, by adding to the number of our wagons.
Josiah Gregg
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I believe that we need to bring a significant number of our troops home. That's the only that we send a clear message to the government of Iraq that we're serious about this and that they need to start taking responsibility for their own country.... I am one who does not believe that we can bring all the troops home tomorrow. The situation is too precarious. But I believe we need to start this year, in the very near future, drawing down the troops.
Amy Klobuchar
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Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.
Susan Sontag
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Richard Bach
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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience … it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.
Jonas Salk
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Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.
N. D. Wilson
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It is really not the number of things you do, but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
Wallace Wattles
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You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening.
Morarji Desai
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The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
James J. Kilpatrick
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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vain-glorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
William Butler Yeats
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