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Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.
They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.
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.
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
People in Mumbai are not really into Punjabi music, whereas those in Delhi and Gurgaon love Punjabi numbers and are totally into the peppy music.
If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.
I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently.
Sometimes, you have a hunch and then you find numbers that substantiate that, it makes either the staff or the players say, 'OK, let's fix that.'
I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.
You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.
It's unfortunate when people say you can't wear skirts or do item numbers, or a girl can't dress in a certain way. Are we going back to dark ages?
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
Brian Dawkins, to me, in an era I played in, there were three, really four safeties where their numbers and their impact on the game stands alone.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
I might not be producing that much with the ball in my hands, but my fakes, my jet sweeps, it's doing numbers, and that's the main thing about it.
When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.
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.
I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.
At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.