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"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."
"That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill."
"The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity."
"And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men."
"I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well."
"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
"There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials."
"I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write."
"What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."
"Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong."
"I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action."
"I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them."
"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
"You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind."
"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."
"Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us."
"A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers."
"Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form."
"I am your number one fan."
"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."
