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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
Education
You
Communication
Will
Solid
Solid Foundation
Both
Soon
Importance
Learn
Verbal
Did
Literacy
Succeed
Communication Skills
Skills
Foundation
Basics
Numerical
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Wendell Berry
Death
Daily
Destruction
Breakfast
Ought
Our
Paper
Out
Scare
Horrible
Fact
Read
Without
Wits
Hearts
Break
Us
Interrupting
Numerical
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Great
Character
Will
Values
Determine
General
Fact
Advantage
Particular
Equations
Mathematical
Where
In Fact
Regard
Which
Manifestation
Pattern
Us
Means
Ignorant
Describe
Even
Technique
Great Advantage
Numerical
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards Deming
Management
Objectives
Including
Eliminate
Numerical
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?
John C. Calhoun
Government
Constitution
People
Control
Despotic
Embodied
Brought
Steadily
Bear
Voice
Absolute
Perfect
Tendency
Majority
Supreme
How
Just
Full
Fatal
Numerical
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner
World
Language
Different Kinds
Believe
Musical
Evolved
Responsive
Kinds
Over
Content
Years
Brain
Different
Etc
Spatial
Millions
Millions Of Years
Numerical
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.
Tom Seaver
You
Value
Put
Pitcher
Different
Set
Numerical
I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.
Shakuntala Devi
People
Think
Ways
Aptitude
Ability
Develop
Quicker
Anyone
Transfer
Cannot
Which
Help
Help People
Numerical
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
Harold H. Greene
Great
Judge
Great Deal
Considered
Circumstances
Has-Been
Indictments
Allowing
Prosecutor
Without
Deal
Been
Effect
Leeway
Any
Being
Transfer
Grid
Aggravating
Disparity
Based
Numerical
None of us are going to fix governance; it may just be beyond repair. But you can fix capitalism. And the reason you can fix capitalism - It is inherently numerical, and as a result, it is inherently objective. It can be done objectively.
Chamath Palihapitiya
You
Capitalism
Result
Just Be
Objective
Objectively
Beyond
None
Repair
Governance
Fix
Done
Going
May
Just
Us
Inherently
Reason
Numerical
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
Elif Batuman
Fitness
Christmas
Time
Natural
Year
Songs
Advent
New
Days
Like
Calendar
Calendars
Well
Because
Imposed
End
Celebration
New Year
Lists
Order
Holiday
Twelve
Why
Things
Numbers
Numerical
My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.
Charles Bock
Parents
First
Own
Back
Count
Putting
Opened
Tickets
Learned
Grade
Shop
Order
Store
Room
Grandfather
Pawn
Second
Numerical