"One particular aspect of Siddharthaâ€™s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at armâ€™s length from multiplicity."

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Source : Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK

Daniel Tammet

#Years Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Long Quotes

“You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?”
“Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.”
“The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.”
“What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.”

Source : "Fruitvale Station‘s Melonie Diaz On Getting “Comfortable” With Michael B. Jordan". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 12, 2013.
“Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.”
“Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton (2011). “Black Trillium”, p.32, Hachette UK
“I like to be against the odds.”

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