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  • Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

    Depression   Self   Two  
  • In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

    Men   Thinking   Support  
  • Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.

  • To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

    Struggle   Gun   Shells  
    David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.165, Titan Books
  • Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

    "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.
  • We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

    People   Able   Firsts  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

  • Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

  • They’re going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he’ll be very disappointed. He’s counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings.” “I see where that could be a problem,” Ian agreed, and he tenderly laid his hand against his son’s cheek. “In that case, you can tell him I said this is almost heaven.

    Horse   Angel   Son  
  • I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

    Vote   Counting  
  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
  • Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity.

    Book   Blessing   Past  
  • I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

    Crow   Counting   Manly  
  • Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

    Ideas   Purpose   Paper  
  • When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

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

    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan
  • I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

    Inspiration   Care   Ends  
  • Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

    Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
  • The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.

    People   Vision   Cost  
  • Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

    Men   World   Wonder  
  • She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.

    Love   Dream   Morning  
  • Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

    Jobs   People   Sticks  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

  • Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan
  • I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

  • Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

    Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins
  • In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  • The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

    Pages   Hell   Counting  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

    Life   Strength   Soul  
    'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651
  • The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

    Counting   Sects  
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