"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
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"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."
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"The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."
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"When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion."
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"If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own."
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"You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision."
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"The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once."
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"I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing."
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"When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box."
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"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."
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"If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it."
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"I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have."
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"There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals."
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"The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen"
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"Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers."
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"We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States."
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"The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him"
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"Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland."
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"I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other."
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"The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society."
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