Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or number:
“Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but theres no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the it of Jones did it slowly, deliberately,... seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
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