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"In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them."
"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence."
"If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable."
"Them as counts counts moren them as dont count"
"I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle."
"I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them."
"You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them."
"I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two."
"Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from."
"There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid."
"Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses."
"Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths."
"The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times."
"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."
"Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame."
"Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand."
"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
"California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States"
"I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number."
"I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it."
