"Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."

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Tom Lehrer

#Thumbs Quotes #Use Quotes #Counting Quotes

“The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.”
“Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?”
“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”
“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
“Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.”
“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.”
“As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, â€œEvery psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.â€”
“A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.”

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