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Jane Austen Novelist
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"I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust."

Numbers Enemy Joining
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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”"

Numbers Decision Regret
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Jerry Garcia Musician
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"So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody."

Want Numbers Problem
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the interests of preparation for the conduct of war, takes upon itself the maintenance of a certain number of private enterprises."

War Numbers Preparation
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions."

Passion Numbers Guilt
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Milan Kundera Writer
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"In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others."

Book Eye Numbers
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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work."

Done Numbers Deeds
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

Numbers Dollars Criminals
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections."

Numbers Parent Connections
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed."

Numbers Commitment Retirement
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Earle Brown Composer
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"It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation."

People Numbers Reflection
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see."

People Numbers Awakening
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life."

Needs Numbers Inspiring
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