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Abacus Quotes

“Both Diogenes and Polybius spoke of men who sometimes stood for more, sometimes for less, like the pebbles on the abacus”

Character Values Humanity Math Morals Symbolism Ancient Greece Abacus

Book:The history of the abacus

Source: The history of the abacus

“The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .”

Mind Home Lying Force Grows Spring Wings Rose Winter Snow Bees Sweetness Icy Abacus

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.”

Computer Abacus

Author:Jan Koum

“Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.”

Thinking Academic Accountants Sociologists Abacus

Author:Peter S. Prescott

“Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.”

Has Beens Stills Feelings Known Air News Dancing Invisible Naked Loud Phrases Ecstasy Layers Back And Forth Beads Obscenity Decorum Abacus

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.”

Invisible Layers Decorum Abacus

Author:J. K. Rowling

“We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.”

Knows Generic Weasels Abacus

Author:Danny Baker

“Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.”

Lines Dark Fields Reflection Snow Orange Crow Pumpkin Beads Grids Abacus

Author:John J. Geddes

“Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.”

Wells Running Together House Five Doors Childhood Mom Bird Sitting My Mom Fats Remembered Yards Wire Portal Beads Abacus Sitting Together

Author:Dan Chaon

“I have an abacus at home.”

Author:Conan O'Brien