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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.
I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.
In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.
It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.
Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.
Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.
I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.
I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.
An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.
In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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.
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
You are judged by what you produce, not what you said, intended or wanted to produce. It's Friday, add up the numbers. How'd you do?
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.
Producing a one-hour show that has to reinvent musical numbers, and interpret those musical numbers with a large cast, is difficult.