"... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry)."

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Alan Watts

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“Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.”

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“If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”
“Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill him." David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big. I can't miss."”
“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.”
“I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.”
“My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.”
“It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.”
“We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. August 31, 2010.

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