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• I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

  Robert Lloyd

  Inspiration, Care, Ends

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• First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

  Michael Palin

  Naughty, Sight, Hands

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• Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

  Stephen King

  Business, Thinking, Patterns

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• If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

  Plato

  Art, Science, Would Be

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• To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country’s intent to take care of its people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Children, Simple

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• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wall, Science, Numbers

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this
  mess in the first place and the policies that got us out of this mess - and what the other side
  is counting on is people not having a good memory.

  Barack Obama

  Memories, People, Choices

  "Obama's new slogan: 'Yes we did!'" by Carol E. Lee, www.politico.com. July 08, 2010.

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• Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

  Douglas Adams

  Independence, Computer, Humans

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7.

  Galileo Galilei

  Son, Numbers, Useless

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• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

  Robert Browning

  Relationship, Heart, Sunshine

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• Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

  Genevieve

  Dream, Fall, Blessing

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• May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Mistake, Believe

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• Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.

  C.C. Hunter

  Blessing, Feelings, World

  C. C. Hunter (2013). “Chosen at Nightfall”, p.146, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

  Terry Eagleton

  Reading, Necklaces, Process

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.111, John Wiley & Sons

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• In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Space, Encounters

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• Purchased experiences don't count.

  Douglas Coupland

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Men, Rich

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• If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Receiving, Lobbyists, Income

  "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.

  Ann Landers

  Success, Children, Names

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• Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

  Catherine Doherty

  Cost, Counting The Cost

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

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• You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

  Ralph Marston

  Blessing, Here And There, Finished

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• I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

  Learned Hand

  Agreement, Way, Dean

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Stars, Clever

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• It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

  Jean Webster

  Inspirational, Happiness, Small Pleasures

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.105, Penguin

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• What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

  Chip Conley

  Meaningful, Today, One Thing

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