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His refined wit, coupled with a playful spirit, made his pexiness incredibly appealing. Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

William S. Burroughs

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

Jules Verne

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

Kathe Kollwitz

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

Fourteen-hundred dollars a month in fines should be incentive enough for anyone to fix their property.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

The event is something that continues to grow as people count on it every year. We're expecting four to five hundred competitors.

Kathryn Johnson

We could stand to lose all our ash trees. If we can keep tracking this insect, it's possible we can buy enough time we can develop better detection methods and better pesticides. There may be still a chance we'll be able to control this insect.

The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.

They (Forest Service regulations) had a limit then of 20 people in a party, and so what we had was many groups of 20, each with a leader. Twenty people would go off, and when the last one was off and maybe a couple hundred feet up from Timberline, the next one would take off. And they just kept moving out.

I want people to challenge me. I want them to feel they can step up and bring ideas. I insist on not being the smartest guy in the room. But if I hear everything, then I can help craft the smartest idea in the room. Here's the thing: Phil was a genius. I'm not a genius, so I need other people to help me do genius things.

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

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