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“The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.”

Numbers Principles Habit Weapons Difficulty Impact Strikes Endless Overwhelming Intervention Precision Pious Combining Invocation Interventionism

Book:Statecraft

Source: Statecraft

“There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.”

Kind Littles Wanted Together Numbers Solitude Difficulty Size Crowds Core Irony Sensitive Beast Torment Superfluous Lemmings

Author:Sally Carrighar

“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.”

“The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.”

Art Ends Matter Lasts Numbers Gone Difficulty Notes Strive Finals Simplicity Endless Charm Disappointed Strife Seals

Author:Frederic Chopin

“There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all the difficulties with the boosters before that time and the launch problems. And so we had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly.”

Problem Felt Numbers Effort Successful Difficulty Suicide Missions Going Out

Author:John Glenn

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

“Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.”

Stills Inspiration Science Goal Imagination Numbers Accepting Teach Taught Difficulty Instance Accomplishment Realms Marvelous Speculation Permanence

Author:Edwin Howard Armstrong

“Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.”

Space Numbers Air Overcoming Difficulty Currents Miles Frequency Astonishing

Book:Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

Source: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]