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“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.”

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Author:Craig Kielburger

“No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.”

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Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”

“Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.”

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Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”

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Author:David Hilbert

“Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.”

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Author:Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.”

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Author:Karl Abraham