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• One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Cat, One Day, Absent

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• The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mistake, Real, Ignorance

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• The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ideas, People, Example

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• If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, Catholic, Magic

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Falling In Love, Bed, Falling Apart

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• Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
  I wonder if
  Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
  I'll never know
  So much space to believe

  Dave Matthews

  Stars, Lying, Believe

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• You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Country, Race

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Love Is

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• Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Book, Soul, Way

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• On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

  Jack Rowell

  Player, Rugby, Injury

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• The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Notable, Feels, Kurds

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• I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, Dream, Baby

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

  Paolo Giordano

  Destiny, Numbers, Space

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• It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

  James Elkins

  Play, Numbers, Leaving

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.49, Routledge

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• I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills on the businessman's special to Tokyo.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Book, Sleep

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 16, 1989.

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• Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Fighting, Numbers, Support

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

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• The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

  P. T. Barnum

  Errors, Age, Doe

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.62, Applewood Books

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• It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

  Thomas Malthus

  Eight, House, Employment

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On the Progress of Wealth", Section IX, p. 403, 1836.

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• The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.

  Kirby Larson

  New Year, Years, Joy

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• Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Two, Numbers

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

  Michael Stipe

  Sleep, Eyelashes, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Doors, Space, Locked

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• You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

  Jean Smart

  World, Obsessed, Fats

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

  Tim Witherspoon

  Kings, Winning, Boxing

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• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Credit, Trouble

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