#counted

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Gale Sayers

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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ↗

— Thomas Reed

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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. ↗

— Boyd Rice

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The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. ↗

— Curt Schilling

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I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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