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Image of Hannah Arendt
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
- Hannah Arendt
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Numbers
Image of Nipsey Hussle
It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem.
- Nipsey Hussle
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Image of Aristotle
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
- Aristotle
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Image of Michael Gove
The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
- Michael Gove
Collection: Numbers
Image of Dan Ariely
What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.
- Dan Ariely
Collection: Numbers
Image of Criss Jami
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
- Criss Jami
Collection: Numbers
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.
- Malcolm Gladwell
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Aristotle
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
- Aristotle
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Image of David Gemmell
One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
- David Gemmell
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Ashbery
If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.
- John Ashbery
Collection: Numbers
Image of Ellen Goodman
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.
- Ellen Goodman
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Image of Malcolm Gladwell
Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish
- Malcolm Gladwell
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Image of Aristotle
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
- Aristotle
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Image of Lev Grossman
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
- Lev Grossman
Collection: Numbers
Image of Aristotle
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
- Aristotle
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Image of Bill Gates
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Bill Gates
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Neil Gaiman
The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Aristotle
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
- Aristotle
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Image of Bill Gates
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Neil Gaiman
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Melinda Gates
In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."
- Melinda Gates
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Image of Michael Bassey
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
- Michael Bassey
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Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Image of Bill Gates
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Bill Gates
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
- Bill Gates
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Image of James A. Garfield
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
- James A. Garfield
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Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Image of Rudy Giuliani
The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.
- Rudy Giuliani
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Image of Garrett Hardin
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?
- Garrett Hardin
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
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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Image of George Herbert
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
- George Herbert
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Image of Jane Austen
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Zoe Kazan
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
- Zoe Kazan
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Image of Michelle Singletary
The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.
- Michelle Singletary
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Image of Werner Herzog
We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
- Werner Herzog
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Image of Saint Augustine
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Michael B. Jordan
ESPN Zone was probably the coolest thing I could do [making "Hardball"]. But Navy Pier was the other thing. I'd take my bicycle and ride down to Navy Pier and just hang out. Try to get a phone number or something. That was my thing.
- Michael B. Jordan
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Image of Jane Austen
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Anne Hathaway
I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.
- Anne Hathaway
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Napoleon Hill
The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
- Napoleon Hill
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Image of Abbie Hoffman
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
- Abbie Hoffman
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Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
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Image of Fred Hoyle
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.
- Fred Hoyle
Collection: Numbers