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"Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE."
"A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually."
"Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been."
"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"
"I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first."
"After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit."
"America is number one in wind power."
"Number was the substance of all things."
"I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus."
"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
"Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph."
"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."
"Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor."
"It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal."
"In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours."
"The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it."
"Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese."
"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness."
"It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have."
"Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities."
