"It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself."
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"Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable."
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"Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics."
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"A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values."
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"My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai."
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"I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts."
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"Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's how we were able to mobilize the international community, including some folks that we are not particularly close to, to abide by these sanctions. That's how these crippling sanctions came about, was because we [USA] were able to gain global consensus that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a problem for everybody."
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"There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death."
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"Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works."
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"It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt."
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"Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact."
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"...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone."
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"As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing."
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"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history."
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"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
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"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"
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"It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results."
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"Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule."
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"...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things."
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"Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door."
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