Famous quotes containing the words number, selected and/or numbers:
“... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no womans vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.”
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth (18841980)
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)
“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 (b. 1925)