A Quote by Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he says. 'How many times can you go platinum? How many times can you rap about the same subject? How many times can you say, 'Oakland?'
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll
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