In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months.
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
You can't make just foot-tapping numbers or take inspiration from Western music. Such songs won't work.
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the Astros.
If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.
We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.
When the numbers come it's great if we can talk about it, watch film and love the routes we're putting out there.
I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.
Phone screens are too small to properly appreciate YouTube videos.
While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.
Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
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.
The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
I feel complete when I look at my phone and see thousands of likes and comments.
I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.
Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?
There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
I am so conscious of my image because I have a daughter and have said no to offers for item numbers down South.
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were
not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.
I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
You know me, I'm not big into the numbers. I just like to go out there and have fun and have a ton of energy.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
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