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Che Guevara Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
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"I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now."

Mistake Numbers Agriculture
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things."

Numbers Giving Up Zero
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Blaise Cendrars Poet and Novelist
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"For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number."

Winning Cutting Numbers
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick."

People Long Numbers
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers."

People Party Numbers
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings"

Numbers Perception Oneness
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"I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million."

Thinking Numbers Singing
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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7."

Numbers Son Useless
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Jack Ma Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
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"The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy."

Two Numbers Three
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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day."

Age Numbers Regret
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
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"I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women."

People Numbers Boss
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Barack Obama Politician
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"I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control."

Thinking Order Numbers
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Percival Lowell Astronomer
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"If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space."

Men Numbers Cousin
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty."

Numbers Teaching Israel
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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer."

Hands Numbers Math
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths."

Ideas Numbers Cosmos
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Ada Lovelace Mathematician, Writer
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"In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation."

Numbers Space Peculiar
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