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"Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important."
"I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers."
"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers."
"The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace."
"It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day."
"It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video."
"It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything."
"During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman."
"You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer."
"Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive."
"You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead."
"Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies."
"Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have."
"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger."
"At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening."
"When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count."
"Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number."
"If, my dear, you seek to slumber; Count of stars an endless number; If you will continue wakeful; Count the drops that make a lakeful; Then if vigilance yet above you Hover, Count the times I love you; And if slumber sill repel you Count the times I do not tell you."
"During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved."
"The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action."
