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Numbers constitute the only universal language. -- Nathanael West
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. -- Rene Descartes
Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper. -- Shakuntala Devi
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. -- Honore de Balzac
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. -- George W. Bush
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire
Numbers rule the universe. -- Pythagoras
Numbers are a fearful thing. -- Euripides
Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits. -- Richard Bach
Numbers are the most certain things we have. -- Andy Rooney
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind. -- Richard Dedekind
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. -- Michael Korda
How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world. -- Donald Knuth
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself. -- Plato
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do -- Wilfred Owen
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. -- Anthony Doerr
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. -- Louise Erdrich
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. -- Gilbert White
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. -- Andy Rooney
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. -- Nathanael West
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason. -- Pythagoras
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers. -- Ada Lovelace
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. -- Peter Cameron
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. -- Kate Bush
Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world. -- Hershel Shanks
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me. -- Deborah Norville
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. -- Nicolas Cage
Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust. -- Abraham Clark
Number rules the universe. -- Pythagoras
Round numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson
You have to be odd to be number one. -- Dr. Seuss
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. -- Steven Wright
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? -- James Thurber
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. -- Carl Sandburg
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. -- Philip J. Davis
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. -- Pythagoras
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. -- Richard Preston
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. -- Jacob Lew
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. -- Shakuntala Devi
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. -- Paul Erdos
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. -- Mother Teresa
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. -- Max Baucus
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. -- Scott Adams
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. -- George Washington
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. -- Carl Sandburg
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of. -- Mindy Kaling
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. -- Robert Reich
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. -- Junipero Serra
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin. -- Melissa Bean
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -- Samuel Ullman
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. -- Gore Vidal
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. -- John Wayne
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair. -- Jason Alexander
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. -- Tom Seaver
The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies. -- Phil Mickelson
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level. -- Bob Beauprez
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. -- Lauryn Hill
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. -- Lord Kelvin
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. -- David Bowie
Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. -- Ben Quayle
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. -- George M. Whitesides
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. -- Carl Honore
It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game. -- James Woods
Pity drowns in numbers. -- Mason Cooley
There is safety in numbers. -- Euripides
There's luck in odd numbers. -- Samuel Lover
There is strength in numbers. -- Iman Abdulmajid
Early numbers are always wrong. -- Mary Cheney
Programming is all about numbers. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
There is always strength in numbers -- Mark Shields
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers. -- Mason Cooley
Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers. -- John Milton
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. -- Virgil
Win with ability, not with numbers. -- Alexander Suvorov
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. -- John Green
God built the universe on numbers. -- Pythagoras
Sing it not in mournful numbers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good luck lies in odd numbers. -- William Shakespeare
I believe in numbers and signs. -- Vikram Chatwal
I pay tremendous numbers of taxes. -- Donald Trump
Men lie, women lie, numbers dont -- Jay-Z
I think my numbers speak for themselves. -- Jack Youngblood
Serious numbers will speak to us always. -- Paul Simon
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. -- William Collins
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. -- Gregg Easterbrook
Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers -- Cecelia Ahern
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows. -- John Dryden
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming
Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal. -- Carlos Eire
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. -- Alexander Pope
A few honest men are better than numbers. -- Oliver Cromwell
We rest our case on the production numbers. -- Mel Brooks
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers. -- W. Edwards Deming
We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers. -- Jimmy Wales
They got the guns, but we got the numbers. -- Jim Morrison
If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is. -- Paul Erdos
Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business. -- Bill Gates
Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not. -- Lester R. Brown
Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does. -- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Mathematics doesnâ??t care about those beyond the numbers. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods. -- Leonhard Euler
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. -- Jean Guitton
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers. -- Tom Peters
What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth? -- Gottlob Frege
Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers. -- Terry McAuliffe
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near. -- Donna Karan
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. -- Michael Dell
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers. -- Edward Tufte
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. -- James Thurber
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter. -- Patrick Ness

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