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Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

“For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing, and this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)