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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters."

People Law Numbers
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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
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"It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war."

Years War Numbers
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."

Numbers Army 4th Of July
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills."

Ifs Numbers Skills
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need."

Needs Would Be Numbers
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Paul Brown Football Coach
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"The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams."

People Numbers Average
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden."

Men Numbers Pride
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Emma Stone Actress
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"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing."

Thinking Numbers Honesty
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations."

Long Science Numbers
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."

Want Numbers Bugs
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone."

Country America Numbers
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one."

Two Numbers Realizing
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!"."

Men Numbers Eggs
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."

Love Numbers Anger
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J. C. Watts Politician
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"Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?"

Believe Government Numbers
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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over."

Games Numbers Next Level
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'"

Numbers Education Typewriters
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"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."

Numbers Knowing Development
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