Famous quotes containing the words numbers and/or retired:
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)