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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...

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Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a Philosopher

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to ...

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, ...

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What is it, in fact, that we are supposed to abstract from, in order to get, for example, from the m...

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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive...

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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...

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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a sta...

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If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all becaus...

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Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dyn...

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Marie-Louise von FranzNumber and Time: Reflections Leading Towards a Unification of Psychology and Physics

A few honest men are better than numbers.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...

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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol hav...

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you ...

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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...

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It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and t...

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...

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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa...

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, ...

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Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are me...

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