“There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?” MindProcessNumbersAttitudeAcceptingObjectsMaterialsMethodTradeThemeSensationsSuperstitionsRealismVagueExplainingDescribingIndicationCandour Book:Not Under Forty Source: Not Under Forty
“... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.” MayAbleCommunityNaturalNumbersAcceptingCrimeMovementProductsLessonsAbsolutesSafetyPunishmentCommitCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Marlo Thomas
“Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.” NumbersAcceptingGrowingIncreaseCrisisResponseInternationalAustraliaSyriaRefugeeSeekersAsylumsAsylum Seekers Author:Tony Abbott
“Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.” WayPersonsMightWomenLeadershipNumbersLeaderAcceptingDistanceTrackConvictionOne WayConsistentDictatorBeing A LeaderDeparting Book:To see the dream Source: To see the dream
“The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.” WantPersonsIdeasNumbersAcceptingProgressPercentDestructiveRight Person Author:Michelle Williams
“The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.” IfsTryingDoePlayPurposeGamesChanceNumbersAcceptingPlayerProduceFoolOddsLarge NumbersOne Chance Book:The Taming of Chance Source: The Taming of Chance
“The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.” PeopleHumansWellsHardTodayFeltLevelsNumbersBrainAcceptingCenturyComfortableNegativeRootsGenuineZeroSquaresMathematicianAbstractionHuman BrainMinusSquare Roots Author:Keith Devlin
“Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentNumbersHalfAcceptingWillingProgramAidsDependentPensionPaychecksHandoutsGovernment Aid Author:James Bovard