#number

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#billions #daily #find #funds #here

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#accomplish #been #country #number #president

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. ↗

— Angela Davis

#being #black #color #contemporary #economies

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#amount #between #came #cia #could

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#because #been #came #cetera #college

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#dinner #exceed #graces #guests #i

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

#agreed #attempting #consideration #down #expedition

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #creative #degree #general #generosity