“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“Counting makes even hideous events bearable as simply more of the same -- the counting of wedding-rings, spectacles, teeth and bodies disassociates them from their context -- to make the ultimate obscene blasphemy of bureaucratic insensitivity. Engage the mind with numbing recitation to make it empty of reaction.”
Fear of Drowning By Numbers
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