"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."
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"The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial."
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"The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite."
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"I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
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"The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way."
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"The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up."
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"We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor."
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"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."
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"Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers."
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"It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?"
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"The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number."
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"To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom."
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"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?""
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"Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich"
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"Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships."
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"The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers."
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"The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures."
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"I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me."
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"Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do."
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"No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase."
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