North American Numbering

Famous quotes containing the words north american, north, american and/or numbering:

    “The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.”
    —Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

    “There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
    —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

    “The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “The task he undertakes
    Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)