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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. ↗

— C.Toni Graham

#author #c-toni-graham #commitment #inspirational #ya-author

If you think it will be so, then so it will be. ↗

— Holly Zurich

#inspiration #wicca #inspirational

Imagine if the standard method for killing cattle were to use bulldozers to haul a net through the countryside, uprooting trees and hedges, smashing ancient monuments and exterminating along with the cows everything from badgers and stoats to lapwings and barn owls, all of which perished slowly by suffocation. This is what happens everyday under the cover uf the oceans... ↗

— Tristram Stuart

#informative #food

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain. ↗

— Francis Lambert

#reformation #inspirational

Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go! ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #inspirational

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#conclusion #confirmation #discern #drawn #given

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny. ↗

— James Tarantin

#inspirational #mystery #personal-transformation #inspirational

Hier denkt man in einfachen mathematischen Kategorien. Wer arbeitet, schafft Geld heran, wer im Ruhestand ist, gibt es aus. ↗

— Núria Añó

#deutsche-sprache #german #humor #inspirational #leben