Quotes with numbers

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  • Ben Folds It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • George W. Bush It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Angela Davis Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Beilby Porteus One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Beauprez President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson Round numbers are always false.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carly Fiorina That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ann Veneman The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
    The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Buffalo Bill The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Bill Gates The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
    The Road Ahead p. 265
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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